Climate Change Students Help Cryosat-2 Arctic Campaign
April 28 — European scientists participating in the ESA CryoSat validation experiment on the Greenland ice sheet will soon be joined by six students from the Climate Change College. (European Space Agency press release) More

Climate Change: 20th Century the Wettest in Pakistan for 1,000 Years
April 27 — A new study based on the first global evaluation of isotopes in the annual rings of juniper trees confirms the amount precipitation since industrialization in Pakistan has increased considerably. (University of Bonn press release) More

UNH Scientists Continue to Fly High as NASA Unlocks the Puzzle of Global Air Quality
April 27 — UNH scientists currently on the NASA DC-8 research aircraft are among a select group of scientists taking part in the agency's Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment, or INTEX-B. (University of New Hampshire press release) More

Geologists: Opening of Passage May Be Tied to Antarctic Cooling
April 20 — Researchers report that ancient fish teeth are yielding clues about when Antarctica became the icy continent it is today and how ocean currents affect climate change. (University of Florida press release) More

Ancient and Modern Evidence Suggests Limits to Future Global Warming
April 20 — Instrumental readings made during the past century offer ample evidence that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are warming Earth's climate, a new study finds. (Duke University press release) More

Discovery of Antarctic Subglacial Rivers May Challenge Excavation Plans
April 19 — Plans to drill deep beneath the frozen wastes of the Antarctic to investigate subglacial lakes where ancient life is thought to exist,may have to be reviewed following a discovery by a British team. (University College London press release) More

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Take to the Skies to Track Pollutants
April 18 — A research consortium has successfully sent a fleet of aerial drones through the pollution-filled skies over the Indian Ocean, achieving an important milestone in the tracking of pollutants. (National Science Foundation press release) More

Parts of the Caribbean and Central America Are Likely to Have Less Summer Rain
April 14 — Based on computer model simulations, parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, scientists report. (University of California-Los Angeles press release) More

U.S.-Taiwan Constellation of Satellites Launched
April 12 — A globe-spanning constellation of six satellites expected to improve weather forecasts, monitor climate change, and enhance space weather research will head into orbit April 14. (National Science Foundation press release) More

Higher Carbon Dioxide, Lack of Nitrogen Limit Plant Growth
April 12 — Plant life will not be able to "store" excess carbon from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as well as scientists once thought because plants likely cannot get enough nutrients when there are higher levels of carbon dioxide, scientists say. (National Science Foundation press release) More

Scientists Create Satellite Map to Show Chesapeake Bay Urban Development
April 11 — Scientists have developed a new map of impervious surface area for the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a region that has been highly altered by human land use. (Woods Hole Research Center press release) More

Technology That Measures Sea Level Improved By New Modeling
April 11 — New research shows a method to recover valuable data from the primary tool used for measuring global sea level -- satellite radar altimetry. (University of New Hampshire press release) More

Earth from Space: Iceberg Knocks the Block Off Drygalski Ice Tongue
April 7 — An enormous iceberg recently rammed into the well-known Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial ice and snow in the Central Ross Sea in Antarctica, breaking off the tongue's easternmost tip. (European Space Agency press release) More

Brown University Geologists Create 5-Million-Year Climate Record
April 6 — Researchers have created the longest continuous record of ocean surface temperatures that challenges the notion that the Ice Ages alone sparked a global cooling trend. (Brown University press release) More

Ocean Acidification Threatens Cold-Water Coral Ecosystems
April 3 — Increasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide are dissolving into the oceans causing them to become slightly more acidic, a change that could harm deep-sea calcifying animals like corals. (Ecological Society of America press release) More

Western Prairies Face Impending Water Crisis
April 3 — The Canadian prairies are facing an unprecedented water crisis due to a combination of climate warming, increase in human activity and historic drought, a new study shows. (University of Alberta press release) More

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