Global warming trends may seriously harm North America's stronghold on the timber production industry, a recent study suggests. (Ohio State University release)

New findings by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers indicate ozone losses due to the breakdown of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, occur much faster than previously believed at higher latitudes roughly 10 miles above Earth.

Plans to meet the outcome of global climate change are underway worldwide, but nowhere is that planning more difficult than in West Africa where the climate has some of the largest signals of change and the climate models have the greatest level of uncertainty, according to Penn State meteorologists. (Penn State release)

Two new and very large icebergs broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica earlier this month in a natural "calving" process that returned the edge of the shelf to its pre-exploration position of the early 1900's, researchers say. (National Science Foundation release)

Human-produced carbonyl sulfide has attracted attention as a possible source of increased levels of sulfate particles, or aerosols, in the atmosphere, which have been linked to depletion of the ozone layer. (American Geophysical Union release)

According to a new study, the world may soon see the end of the "free ride," in which carbon absorption by natural ecosystems ameliorates the rise in atmospheric CO2 due to fossil fuel burning and loss of forest. (Duke University release)

Over 100 researchers will profile the water vapor that feeds heavy rain and thunderstorms across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas as part of the large, complex International H20 Project. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research release)

To scientists who study interactions between the air and the sea, breaking waves represent one of the most vital air-sea exchange mechanisms. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego release)