Earth Day Connections: NASA Investigates Vegetation
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From the vantage point of space, NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites investigates connections between ecosystems that are continents apart, or right next door.
Part...
Earth Day Connections: NASA Study Predicts Less Saharan Dust in Future Winds
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African dust is important for the Earth system, transporting nutrients across the Atlantic annually. The first in NASA's 'Earth Day Connections' series, this...
Climate change could cause ‘irreversible impacts’ to lake ecosystems
New research shows that lake “stratification periods” – a seasonal separation of water into layers – will last longer in a warmer climate.
These longer...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #16
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Apr 11, 2021 through Sat, Apr 17, 2021
Not having...
Experts voice serious concern over key Climate Bill aspect
16 April 2021
The revised Climate Bill must be amended if it is to deliver on the Programme for Government’s commitments, a letter from experts...
NASA-Built Instrument Will Help Spot Greenhouse Gas Super-Emitters
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The tool will help people, including resource managers and other officials, address increasing concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
NASA’s Jet...
Over a quarter of Irish birds on conservation Red List
15 April 2021
Over a quarter of all Irish birds now find themselves on the highest level of conservation concern.
According to a paper in the...
vEGU21 – Gather online – Prolog
Just like last year, this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will happen virtually instead of in person in Vienna. Contrary to...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15, 2021
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Fight or Flight: How Advertising for Air Travel Triggers Moral Disengagement (open access) by Stubenvoll & Neureiter not only takes...
Guest post: How finance from rich nations could drive 40% of new coal plant...
Coal use needs to rapidly fall this decade if the world has any chance of achieving the 1.5C temperature target of the Paris Agreement,...
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