Sweating It Out: U.S. Cities Have 10 More Hot Nights A Year Than 40 Years Ago, Cornell Climate Researchers Discover
September 25 — If you think that summers are getting hotter, you could be right -- depending on where you live. Summers are heating up if you live in or near any major U.S. city. But in rural areas, temperatures have remained relatively constant. More

U.S. Cities Have 10 More Hot Nights a Year than 40 Years Ago
September 25 — Summers are heating up if you live in or near any major U.S. city. But in rural areas, temperatures have remained relatively constant. (Cornell University release) More

Interpreting a Climate Record from 10,000-year-old Migrating Waters
September 12 — Researchers confirm that waters migrating from the surface can take many tens of thousands of years to reach the water table and they hold a scientific and historical record of global climate change. (American Society of Agronomy release) More

New Amazon Forest Monitoring Team: RAINFOR
September 9 — The Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR), representing nearly fifty researchers from five Amazonian countries, Europe and the U.S., is a new effort to monitor biomass and dynamics of forests across the entire Amazon basin. (Smithsonian Institution release) More

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