Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship …
The Amazon is ready to burn. After an unusually dry rainy season, the southern section of the rainforest is heading into winter with the largest moisture deficit since 1998. This has set the stage for an unusually intense fire season, according to a forecast issued on 29 June that is …
Earlier this month, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend — the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. And this is presumably occurring as more carbon dioxide in the air, along with warmer temperatures and longer growing …
On 4 July, NASA intends to finish a job that started with the agency’s Galileo mission 21 years ago. At 8:18 p.m. Pacific time, the Juno spacecraft will ignite its main engine for 35 minutes and nudge itself into orbit around Jupiter. If all goes well, it will eventually slip …
US space agency NASA is set to test-fire a booster for the world's most powerful rocket Space Launch System (SLS) which will power astronauts on the journey to Mars and on other deeper space missions The booster will be fired up at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems' test facilities in Promontory, …
A monster forest fire that began in early May is still burning in Canada’s vast, isolated north woods. That may seem of little consequence to anyone other than the 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray forced to flee as the blaze swept into the northern Alberta city. Yet large fires like …
2016 is on pace to be the hottest year on record. This past May was the warmest May month in a 137-year period, breaking global temperature records, according to a report published on June 23 by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said a CNN report. The new …
Ecologists studying the effects of climate change have completed a new study that details which US trees will have the toughest time adapting as our world heats up. The findings suggest that while some species will thrive in a warmer environment, like red hickory and blackjack oak, some species - …
The streak continues: May was record warm for the globe, according to NASA data released Monday. It’s now even more likely that 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded, despite the demise of one of the strongest El Niños on record. NASA put May at 1.67°F (0.93°C) warmer than …
Coral reefs have almost always been studied up close, by scientists in the water looking at small portions of larger reefs to gather data and knowledge about the larger ecosystems. But Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking a step back and getting a wider view, from about 23,000 ft above. …
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Using 29 years of data from satellite imageries, NASA scientists have found extensive greening in the Arctic region, thanks to rising temperatures. The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, said the study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska …
NASA called off an attempt to inflate an experimental habitat attached to the International Space Station after the fabric module failed to expand as planned on Thursday. Station crew member Jeff Williams spent more than two hours opening a valve to allow spurts of air to inflate the 3,100-pound (1,400 …
The International Space Station launched CubeSat, a mini-satellite that is first of its kind. The miniature satellite was a breakthrough project built by a group of grade school students from St, Thomas More Cathedral School in Virginia. Prior to being launched in space, it was first deployed to the space …
Why has the sea ice cover surrounding Antarctica been increasing slightly, in sharp contrast to the drastic loss of sea ice occurring in the Arctic Ocean? A new NASA-led study has found the geology of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is responsible. The researchers used satellite radar, sea surface temperature, …
Earth has dealt with a very hot temperature, something which cannot seem to end. According to the data released by NASA, the planet has recorded a scorching streak of warm months that has increased to seven. The earth's average temperature is 1.11 degrees Celsius or 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit above the …
After the fourth attempt, NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka airport in New Zealand. Its mission is to perform near-space scientific investigations. This was the fifth attempt after other attempts were thwarted because of bad weather, according to NASA. Dwayne Orr from Columbia Balloon Facility said that …
India has developed a reusable space shuttle and a test version of it is ready to be launched this month. Space exploration is a complex science which is why it is understandable for whoever engaged in space science to spend billions of dollars in developing their technology alone. India isn't …
NASA built the biggest and most powerful rocket ever made, the Space Launch System (SLS) which can carry as mush as 143 tons of weight and will enable an on-board crew spacecraft, Orion, to travel deeper into space where no crew has gone before. The Space Launch System or SLS …
Climate change, global warming and its visible haunting effects on Earth have left the entire world stumped. The accumulation of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions over the years has put a huge question mark planet Earth's future as a habitat for all living things and beings. 2015 saw the leaders …
From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25. An international team of 32 authors from 24 …
According to a recent report by NASA, space can offer a tantalizing solution to monitor global air pollution and its effects in the future. Spacecrafts that orbit the Earth thousands of kilometers away can be used to track air pollutants with instruments similar to the way weather scientists observe storms …
