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Hurricane Forecasts Can Be Made Years in Advance
The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they have developed a way to forecast how many Atlantic hurricanes...
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Supreme Court Takes Climate Pollution Case
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a landmark case on greenhouse gases, potentially affirming or denying the public’s right to limit corporate pollution. At issue is American Electric...
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Acidifying Oceans Could Upset Life’s Nitrogen Cycles
An experimental simulation of near-future changes in ocean chemistry suggests that aquatic nitrogen cycles could be profoundly disrupted, altering the basic structure of Earth’s food webs. Nitrogen is...
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Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne...
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Himalayan Glaciers Shrinking, With Some Exceptions
An important portion of the Himalaya’s glacier cover is currently stable and, thanks to an insulating layer of debris, may be even growing, a new study finds. The study’s conclusion contradicts a...
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Antarctic Penguins Run Low on Food
Mr. Popper may have had too many penguins, but today Antarctica seems to have too few. [partner id=”sciencenews” align=”right”]Disruptions in the food supply, caused in part by warming climate, are to...
View ArticleStoryboard: Wine! Science! (… and Climate Change)
Climate change seems inevitable, but to what degree is a question scientists constantly explore. Even the smallest variations in climate can have a big impact on how we operate – from big initiatives...
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Poll Finds Public Support for Climate Hacking
Support among the public for scientists deliberately altering the Earth's climate on a vast scale to counteract global warming is at 72 percent, according to a recent survey that appeared in the...
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Inside a NASA Meetup, Where Science Fans Become Space Ambassadors
It's 7:30 on a Monday morning, and a crowd has started to gather at the gates of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We're linked by two common factors: We all use social media, and we're all really,...
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California’s Fires Are Barely Contained—And Barely Started
The Valley Fire burned 61,000 acres in 17 hours, but it's neither the beginning nor the end of California's 2015 fire season. The post California’s Fires Are Barely Contained—And Barely Started...
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House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the Climate Investigation into Exxon
The House Science Committee is dragging out the spurious narrative that science isn't in consensus about climate change, its causes, and effects. The post House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the...
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It’s Time for the Nobel Committee to Honor Climate Research
The best way to prove the scientific solidarity behind the fact the climate is changing is to award those who study it. The post It's Time for the Nobel Committee to Honor Climate Research appeared...
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Trump Names Former Climate Scientist Erik Noble to NASA Advisory Role
Is this good news or bad? Unclear. The post Trump Names Former Climate Scientist Erik Noble to NASA Advisory Role appeared first on WIRED.
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Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data
Hackers are building up robust systems to monitor changes to government websites. And they're keeping track of data that's been removed. The post Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA's Earth Science Data...
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Old-Guard Archivists Keep Federal Data Safer Than You Think
Long before Trump, open government and open data evangelists had been preserving all kinds of data collected and stored by the government. The post Old-Guard Archivists Keep Federal Data Safer Than You...
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Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming
A new supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research gets to work studying climate and solar flares—and prepares for a bunch of new neighbors. The post Why You Should Put Your...
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This Drone Once Fought Wars. Now It’s Fighting Climate Change
This drone served in Iraq and Afghanistan—and it's going to take atmospheric data in Alaska next year. The post This Drone Once Fought Wars. Now It's Fighting Climate Change appeared first on WIRED.
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