Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
WEBJul 15, 2021 · Eyewitness accounts describe hovering balls of light typically about 20 centimeters in diameter, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The balls appear white, yellow, orange, blue, or (rarely) green ...
The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
WEBFeb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Eos
WEBNov 22, 2019 · Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate. The ...
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Plankton that are plants, known as phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. As such, climate ...
The Effect of Coral Bleaching Events in the Great Barrier Reef
WEBMay 31, 2019 · The heat stress made corals eject the symbiotic algae that live alongside the hard coral skeleton. When the algae leave, the remaining coral becomes a stark white color in a process known as ...
Halocarbons: What Are They and Why Are They Important? - Eos
WEBSep 16, 2020 · Halocarbons comprise a wide range of gases. They are compounds that only contain carbon and one or more halogens such as fluorine, chlorine and bromine. Halocarbons are mostly man-made chemicals ...
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
WEBMay 17, 2021 · A Gold Standard for Reading Cretaceous Climate. The Cretaceous period is an archetypal example of a greenhouse climate. Atmospheric pCO 2 levels reached as high as about 2,000 ppmv, average ...
How Quantum Computing Can Tackle Climate and Energy …
WEBOct 21, 2022 · Quantum computing could accelerate discovery and development of new energy production (e.g., photovoltaic) and storage (e.g., battery) technologies, as well as improved strategies for climate ...
Mapping the People, Places, and Problems of Permafrost Thaw
WEBApr 21, 2021 · By combining demography data with permafrost maps, researchers provide a first count of the population on permafrost and predict its imminent decline. A private home in Fairbanks, Alaska, contends ...
The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
WEBApr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
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