Solar Particle Radiation
The Sun radiates more than just life-sustaining light into the solar system. At irregular intervals, it also produces bursts of high-energy particles. These solar particles ha...
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Montreal (dpa) Delegates at the United Nations climate
conference in Montreal reached a landmark deal late Friday to
accelerate by a decade the phaseout of ozone-depl...
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Lake Superior has been warming even faster than the climate around it since the late 1970s due to reduced ice cover, according to a study by professors at the University of Minnesota Duluth.Summer ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Clouds at the edge of
space are showing the effects of climate change, scientists
said Monday. These so-called polar mesospheric clouds are occurring more
often and appea...
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The peak of the next sunspot cycle is expected in late 2011 or mid-2012 _ potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree ...
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More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles Monday to measure the effects of climate change, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines to study everyt...
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The peak of the next sunspot cycle is expected in late 2011 or mid-2012 _ potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree ...
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Around the middle of the 19th century the Arctic took a sooty turn for the worse, according to researchers studying how humans have affected the climate.Soot can darken the snow, causing it to abso...
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Tour operators and residents living in the foothills of Mt.
Kilimanjaro are feeling the pinch of global warming as the snowcap
atop Africa's highest peak continues to shrink due to climate ch...
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The Arctic is under increasing stress from warming temperatures as shrubs colonize the tundra, changing wildlife habitat and local climate conditions, researchers said Wednesday.Sea ice fell well b...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The spread of ozone, a
greenhouse gas, could inflict serious damage on vegetation in
many places, cutting up to 12 percent off the value of global
crops by 2100 and hurting the ...
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