Climate Plays Bigger Role than CO2 in Make-up of Plant Communities
August 30 — Local climate may be more important than carbon dioxide levels in determining what types of plants thrive and what types don't do so well, a team of scientists reports in this week's edition of the journal Science. (University of Florida release) More

Secret to Earth's 'Big Chill' Found in Underground Water
August 27 — A new study changes the equation for everything from global climate to understanding the ocean's basic chemistry. (University of Rochester release) More

Researchers Find Mercury Pollution in Wildfires
August 24 — As thousands of acres continue to burn across the western United States, scientists are flying over wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to measure mercury emissions in their smoke. (National Center for Atmospheric Research/ University Corporation for Atmospheric Research release) More

Warmer periods in Alaskan area not confined to modern times
August 19 — In the northwest foothills of the Alaska Range, the last 150 years have been warm by historical reckoning, scientists report. However, they note, two other lengthy periods of climatic warmth appear to have occurred in that region during the last 2,000 years. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign release) More

PNNL Captures First Bird's-Eye View of Puget Sound Pollution
August 17 — Launching what will be the first sky-based study of Puget Sound's air quality, scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will fly Seattle's periodically hazy skies this month in search of answers about regional ozone and other pollutants. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Release) More

NCAR Scientists Delve into the Icy Hearts of Hurricanes
August 13 — Despite its tropical origin, the upper two-thirds of a typical hurricane is largely ice. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are bringing unique cloud-profiling instruments into this mysterious realm in a NASA-sponsored project to help improve hurricane forecasting and modeling. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Release) More

UMass Hurricane Hunters Flying Back Into the Eyes of Storms
August 10 — University of Massachusetts researchers will be flying into the eyes of hurricanes again this year, using high-tech weather sensors developed at the University. (University of Massachusetts Amherst Release) More

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