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At altitudes of 12-18 km the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) extends from the Mediterranean to the Western Pacific during the season of the Asian summer monsoon. The origin and properties of the ATAL have been debated actively since its discovery nearly a decade ago. A team of scientists from Europe has now discovered that … Read more
New research has found the record-breaking South American drought of 2013/14 with its succession of heatwaves and long lasting marine heatwave had its origins in a climate event half a world away – over the Indian Ocean. The findings published in Nature Geoscience by an international research team with authors from the Federal University of … Read more
University of Exeter scientists scoured existing published studies and Twitter for shark and ray entanglements, and found reports of more than 1,000 entangled individuals. And they say the true number is likely to be far higher, as few studies have focussed on plastic entanglement among shark and rays. The study says such entanglement – mostly … Read more
Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science. They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations. … Read more
In a peer-reviewed report released today, researchers identified more than 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests – restoration hotspots – spread out across Central and South America, Africa and Southeast Asia that present the most compelling opportunities for restoration to overcome rising global temperatures, water pollution and shortages, and the extinction of … Read more
A study on ice nucleation ability of aerosols from anthropogenic pollution led by Assistant Researcher Bin Zhao, Researcher and Assistant Director Yu Gu in University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and Research Scientist Yuan Wang in California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been published in Nature Geoscience. Ice clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere have profound impacts … Read more
The best way to protect corals threatened by climate change is to conserve a wide range of their habitats, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. The finding likely applies to conservation efforts for many other species in the ocean and on land, including trees and birds. “Rather than conserving just the cold places … Read more
As Europe sizzles to yet another record heatwave, it is becoming more difficult for climate change sceptics to deny that our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate. But what are the consequences of these rising temperatures for our ecosystems and the natural resources that we derive from them? A team of researchers, led by … Read more
Until that point, the success of organisms living within the marine environment had been strongly controlled by non-biological factors, including ocean chemistry and climate. However, from the middle of the Jurassic period onwards (some 170 million years ago), biological factors such as predator-prey relationships became increasingly important. Writing in Nature Geoscience, scientists say this change coincided … Read more
The study, led by University at Albany atmospheric scientist Liming Zhou, along with an international team of researchers, analyzed multiple independent precipitation and satellite-derived vegetation datasets to determine that the central African rainforest is experiencing a widespread, longer dry season during the boreal summer (June to August). The length has increased between 6.4 to 10.4 … Read more