Fires in equatorial Asia are growing more frequent and having a serious impact on the air as well as the land.
A team of scientists embark this week on a two-month expedition to Greenland and Iceland to use a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change.
An upcoming NASA mission will track sea salinity, helping scientists monitor and predict climate change.
For the last decade, NASA's Earth Observatory has been using stunning satellite imagery to tell the story of our planet and the NASA scientists who are working to help us understand how it works.
New research shows that the warming effect of aerosols, or small particles in the air, increases with the amount of cloud cover below the aerosols.
Irradiance in Polluted Cumulus Fields: Measured and Modeled Cloud-Aerosol Effects, Schmidt, K. S., G. Feingold, P. Pilewskie, H. Jiang, O. Coddington, and M. Wendisch, Geophysical Research Letters, April 4, 2009 (Vol. 36, L07804, doi:10.1029/2008GL036848)
Retrieval of Stratospheric Temperatures from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Radiance Measurements for Gravity Wave Studies, Hoffmann, L., and M. J. Alexander, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, April 4, 2009 (Vol. 114, D07105, doi:10.1029/2008JD011241)
Intercomparison of Aerosol Extinction Measured by Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II and III, Yue, G. K., M. D. Fromm, and E. P. Shettle, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, April 4, 2009 (Vol. 114, D07205, doi:10.1029/2008JD010452)
Development of an Unbiased Cloud Detection Algorithm for a Spaceborne Multispectral Imager, Ishida, H., and T. Y. Nakajima, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, April 4, 2009 (Vol. 114, D07206, doi:10.1029/2008JD010710)
North American Influence on Tropospheric Ozone and the Effects of Recent Emission Reductions: Constraints from ICARTT Observations, Hudman, R. C., L. T. Murray, D. J. Jacob, S. Turquety, S. Wu, D. B. Millet, M. Avery, A. H. Goldstein, and J. Holloway, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, April 4, 2009 (Vol. 114, D07302, doi:10.1029/2008JD010126)
As the temperature climbs in the Northeast and summer wilt sets in before trees have even budded out, it's worth remembering that weather is not climate. (Scientific American) more...
Destruction wreaked by hurricanes over the past 150 years has severely affected the ability of U.S. forests to store carbon, say ecologists. (New Scientist) more...
There are fears that stores of the gas trapped at the bottom of the ocean could be awakened by warming temperatures, but researchers are helping to show that might not be the case. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) more...
Trees do a lot for us: provide wood, improve health, even clean up the air by chemically converting CO2 to carbohydrates, but the answer to climate change is not as simple as planting more trees. (Scientific American) more...
The Earth's ailing ozone layer will probably recover, but it will never look exactly like it used to, according to a new study that found that greenhouse gasses are interfering with ozone's rebound in complicated ways. (Discovery news) more...
Plants absorbed carbon dioxide more efficiently under the polluted skies of recent decades than they would have done in a cleaner atmosphere, according to new findings. (Natural Environment Research Council press release)
The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon commonly called "red tide" is expected to be "moderately large" this spring and summer, according to researchers. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release)
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a comprehensive study of global stream flows. (National Science Foundation press release)
Increased growth in Antarctic sea ice during the past 30 years is a result of changing weather patterns caused by the ozone hole, according to new research published this week. (British Antarctic Survey press release)
A new study shows that in some cases, changes in the types of plants growing in an area could override the effects of climate change on wildfire frequency. (Ecological Society of America press release)