Understanding the dangerous synergy of heat and humidity
Knowing how heat and humidity affect your body can help you stay safe during heat waves
JohnEric W. Smith, Mississippi State University
Less than a month into...
NASA mission builds understanding of Greenland glacier collapse
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip
Carol Rasmussen - JPL.NASA.Gov
By dropping probes from a plane into the ocean, the pioneering...
A Machine-Learning Assist to Predicting Hurricane Intensity
NASA research could help to improve forecasts of whether a hurricane will suddenly intensify, which could give people in its path more time to...
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish...
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
People fishing along the banks of the White River as it...
Climate change is already disrupting US forests and coasts
Here’s what we’re seeing at 5 long-term research sites
Michael Paul Nelson, Oregon State University and Peter Mark Groffman, CUNY Graduate Center
Record-breaking heat waves and drought...
Gold rush, mercury legacy
Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru
Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University; Austin Wadle, Duke University, and Jasmine...
The Earth is getting much warmer
Warming is clearly visible in new US 'climate normal' datasets
Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University and Becky Bolinger, Colorado State University
Anyone who listens to weather...
Climate change could alter ocean food chains
Climate change could alter ocean food chains, leading to far fewer fish in the sea
Sustained ocean warming could greatly reduce catches of fish like...
Having a Closer Look at Cancer Alley
Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer
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Stopping Global Extinction
'Revolutionary change' needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
Michelle Lim, University of Adelaide
We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen...
