Researchers say evidence suggests that the frozen seabed is perforated and is starting to leak methane, but other scientists urge caution
Histories: Who really discovered the ozone hole?
NASA’s account of the discovery of the ozone hole differs from the one researcher remembers. What really happened? (full text available to subscribers)
The Battle for the North Pole: Melting Ice Brings Competition for Resources
Climate change is freeing the Arctic of ice — and spurring a global competition for the natural resources stored beneath. Countries that border the sea are staking new territorial claims and oil giants are dispatching geologists. But what will the tug-of-war mean for the indigenous people and wildlife?
No plant CO2 relief in warm world
Plants are unlikely to soak up excess carbon dioxide as temperatures rise, a study concludes.
New Carbon Material Shows Promise Of Storing Large Quantities Of Renewable Electrical Energy
Engineers and scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called “graphene” as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at … Read More
Was the inventor of the telescope Dutch, Italian or Spanish?
Was the telescope invented in Spain, not in the Netherlands as popularly assumed?
Moderate Quantities Of Dirt Make More Rain
Drought or deluge? Scientists have now discovered how aerosols affect the when, where and how much of rainfall.
NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Could Impact Climate
NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have called dangerous for climate.
A Brief History Of Radio – Echo Sounding Of Ice
The application of radio-echo sounding (RES) to thickness measurements of glacial and sheet ice has been demonstrated since the early 1960s. The concept for this approach can be traced to 1933 at Admiral Byrd’s base, Little America, Antarctica where the first indication that snow and ice are transparent to high frequency radio signal was observed.
NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications: Integrating Earth Observations
There are advantages and disadvantages to reanalyses for climate study. The main advantages are that global Earth observations (disparate distributions in space and time) are assimilated leading to uniformly gridded and globally available data. Reanalyses also combine many different types of observations into a single analysis.