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“#Study finds humans are behind costly, increasing risk of wildfire to millions of homes” Credit: CC0 Public Domain People are starting almost all the wildfires that threaten U.S. homes, according to an innovative new analysis combining housing and wildfire data. Through activities like debris burning, equipment use and arson, humans were responsible for igniting 97%…
“#NASA’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone” In this side-by-side image above, the left side image shows the areas (marked in red) where the wildfires are currently burning in the West. Copious amounts of smoke spill off the coast and into the Pacific Ocean. The right side, however, shows the real story…
“#NASA finds Tropical Storm Rene less affected by wind shear” On Sept. 10, 2020, NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Storm Rene, and the eastern side of Tropical Storm Paulette (top left) moving through the Atlantic Ocean. Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA’s Terra satellite…
“#Infrared NASA imagery provides Paulette’s temperature palette” On Sept. 9 at 12:47a.m. EDT (0447 UTC) NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Paulette using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument. AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures as cold as or colder than (purple) minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) northeast of the center…
“#$500 billion question: What’s the value of studying the ocean’s biological carbon pump?” WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right), one of the authors of the study, deploys a sediment trap used to study the biological carbon pump during a 2018 expedition in the Gulf of Alaska. Credit: Alyson Santoro, University of California Santa Barbara The…
“#Removing marine plastic litter is costly for small island states” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Removing all of the plastic litter from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll—a ring of islands formed from coral reef in the Seychelles—would cost US $4.68 million and require 18,000 hours of labour, according to a study in Scientific…
“#California wildfires growing bigger, moving faster than ever” In this Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, provided by the California National Guard, dozens of people are evacuated to safety on a Cal Guard Chinook, after the Creek Fire in central California left them stranded. A weekend wildfire east of Fresno exploded so fast that it trapped…
“#German study highlights carbon footprint of video streaming” In this Aug. 20, 2019 file photo, gamers play the latest video games from Electronic Arts at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Streaming high-definition video and games can result in significant greenhouse gas emissions, depending on the technology used, according to a German government-backed study released Thursday….
“#Pollution wreaks havoc on corals’ immune systems” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Fighting infections is hard. It’s even harder for corals also grappling with pollution. Katherine Dougan, a Ph.D. student in the FIU Institute of Environment, found high levels of nutrients including nitrogen and phosphorous—caused by fertilizer, sewage and other human sources—are actually making it harder…
“#7 lessons Canada should use from WW2 to fight the climate emergency” C.D. Howe watches a scientist test the curve of a lens. Credit: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque. Library and Archives Canada, CC BY Canada’s approach to climate change for the past 30 years is simply not working. Greenhouse gas emissions in the…