Location: Cambridge, United States
The four chloromethanes - methyl chloride (CH3Cl), dichloromethane (CH2Cl2),
chloroform (CHCl3), and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), are chlorine-containing
gases contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion and having
adverse...
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Location: Heslington, United States
Equipment using wireless technology is becoming increasingly commonplace but
despite this up to 90 per cent of the radio spectrum can be idle in any one
location.
The failure to unlock the potential of this unused radio spectrum is...
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Location: Hawaii, United States
For over two centuries, meteorologists were puzzled by the observation that atmospheric pressure in the tropics peaks at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. nearly every day. In the late 1960s, a theory was proposed that these surface pressure variations result...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., 202-358-0918, United States
A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa. ...
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, United States
In a new NASA
study, researchers taking advantage of improvements in satellite sensor
capabilities offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of
pollution...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: University of Washington, United States
What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect
the earliest signs of cancer?
The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality,...
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts
poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to
a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire
human genome, an international team supported in part by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has found evidence...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same
visual perceptual tasks, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology researchers and...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia,
researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic"
exposure of different countries to future climate change.
The research team from
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Location: Conservation International, United States
Climate
change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas
around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the
resulting...
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Location: Conservation International, United States
Healthy ecosystems
that provide people with essential natural goods and services often overlap with
regions rich in biological diversity, underscoring that conserving one...
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Location: University of Bonn, Germany
The feelings an individual has on receiving his paycheque depend critically
on how much his colleague earns. Hard evidence for this comes from an experiment
conducted by economists and brain scientists at the University of Bonn. They
tested...
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Location: Ohio State University, United States
As sea levels rise, coastal communities could lose up to 50 percent more of their fresh water supplies than previously thought, according to a new study from
Ohio State University.
Hydrologists...
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