ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2012) — A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century. The research was published today in the journal Proceedings of …
Global Warming Causes Heat Waves, Says NASA Scientist
Global Warming Causes Heat Waves, Says NASA Scientist Heat wave events, once rare, are becoming more frequent due to global warming, says NASA scientist James Hansen. Such summertime heat events covered only 1% of Earth?s surface for most of the time since humanity has been studying the climate. Now, when …
Risks Rise for Fracking
WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING A Toxin Blooms In a 2004 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Harvard-educated biologist and Institute for Ethnomedicine Director Paul Alan Cox, Ph.D. and colleagues found the neurotoxin B-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) in nine deceased Canadian… Continue Reading » Risks Rise for Fracking …
First-ever map reveals where tropical forests store carbon
EarthSky // Blogs // Earth Posted Jun 04, 2011 First-ever map reveals where tropical forests store carbon Researchers looked at three million measurements of treetop height, along with ground data, and calculated the carbon held in tropical forests. A NASA-led research team has created the most precise map ever produced …