A new laser-based sampling device can make very quick analyses of farm soil, which could help reduce levels of harmful carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (UPI)
Most of the world?s glaciers are melting faster, according to a USGS and NASA joint assessment. (UPI)
Plants bloomed up to two weeks earlier in the spring, according to a study that used 47 years of data. (CBC, AP)
A NASA scientist finds that pollutants travel the globe with prevailing air currents. (Space.com)
A new satellite from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide a steadier data stream for climatologists to track El Niño. (UPI)
NASA scientists use a computer model to predict El Niños before they occur. (UPI)
Scientists are finding new ways to image the world and the universe with bouncing lasers. (Scripps)
Researchers are using a ranging and location system based on light instead of radio waves to monitor changes in geologic faults and ice sheets. (UPI)
The parched U.S. Southwest and plains states will find little relief before July, experts said. (Reuters)
A consortium of scientists has patched together a network of satellite images to watch fires across the entire Western Hemisphere. (Scripps)
A new online tool evaluates seasonal forecasts for water, land and agricultural managers. (SpaceDaily)
Runoff, rather than oil spills, causes the vast majority of man-made oil pollution in U.S. ocean waters, according to a new report. (Scripps)
Scientists from several nations began an experiment to discover how dust devils may affect atmospheres on Earth and on Mars. (Spaceflight Now)
Every year, children from around the world gather and compete in a creative problem-solving competition that challenges students to solve long-term topics.
A NASA-funded study finds that changing rainfall patterns over much of the United States in the last century have allowed plants to grow more vigorously and absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (UPI, Spaceflight Now, Cosmiverse)
When hurricane Erin was beating up the North Atlantic last year, NASA researchers decided to take its temperature. (Universe Today)
Last month was the second warmest April on record worldwide, and warmer and drier than usual for much of the U.S. (USA Today)
The Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves are breaking up, presenting the most serious thaw since the last ice age 12,000 years ago. (Reuters)
Not all researchers agree with forecasts predicting a return of El Nino this summer. (Lisa Pinsker, Geotimes)
Loss of Arctic Sea Ice that makes up Polar bear hunting grounds could have devastating consequences for world's largest land predator. (Reuters)
Though marine life has recovered from two mass extinctions, it has remained very stable over the last 450 million years. (ScienceDaily)
Planet Earth is warming faster than previously expected, the head of a leading climate research said. (Reuters)
Dry weather has seen New Zealand's famed South island glaciers record one of their biggest annual losses of ice mass in 25 years and they would continue shrinking if this trend continued, scientists said. (Reuters)
September airline shutdown allowed scientists a rare glimpse into the effects of airplane contrails on climate. (Science News)
A huge iceberg 10 times larger than Manhattan island has plummeted into the Ross Sea near New Zealand. (Reuters)
A team of scientists are conducting experiments in the International H20 Project (IHOP) in the nation's heartland stretching from Kansas to Texas, in search of water vapor that feeds heavy rain and thunderstorms. (SpaceDaily.com, UPI)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now projects a "weaker" El Nino by the end of this year. The African Weather Service is waiting until after June to make their prediction. (Reuters)
A Geologist from the University of Edinburgh is using cores from the ocean floor to form a picture of dramatic climate change that occurred millions of years ago. (SpaceDaily.com)
The South African Weather Service said it expects an El Nino to hit southern Africa at the end of the year, bringing another dry spell. (Reuters)
The Philippine government said that a "weak to moderate" El Nino is expected to bring the onset of drought to the Philippines in the last three months of 2002. (SpaceDaily.com)
Tiny aerosols or airborne particles of pollution may discourage clouds from forming by altering the size of ice crystals and increasing the quantity of them. (UPI, Cosmiverse.com)
Ozone loss over the Antarctic has cooled the upper atmosphere, and has caused winds to shift causing some areas of the continent to cool, and warming other areas. (Ananova.com, NY Times)
Changing wind patterns triggered by the ozone hole are causing some areas of Antarctica to warm and others to cool, according to a study from Colorado State University (NewScientist.com, Scientific American on-line)
Computer models suggest that Earth's changing climate will cause most places to have radically different ecosystems within 50 years. (ENN.com)
For the first time, scientists have taken the temperature of the eye of a hurricane and as a result, have a better understanding of a hurricane?s warm core, that powers storms. (Cosmiverse.com)
Smog particles are absorbing solar radiation before it reaches the surface, which is cooling India?s winters, according to researchers conducting the Indian Ocean Experiment. (Cosmiverse.com)