Items tagged with climate

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Pacific Climate Event Helps La Nina Linger Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - 16:30:56 - Ehud Rattner Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Ninas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to... read more

Absence of Clouds Hurt Ancient Enivronment Saturday, April 12th, 2008 - 08:03:46 - Ehud Rattner In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse... read more

A Martian Adventure in Antarctica Friday, March 28th, 2008 - 23:35:59 - Ehud Rattner A researcher from Tufts University has travelled to the most desolate place on Earth to learn more about the Red Planet—and climate change. He needed... read more

Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegrating Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 - 12:46:12 - Ehud Rattner Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice... read more

Climate Change Threatens Major Food Source Monday, March 24th, 2008 - 08:08:33 - Ehud Rattner Rice is arguably the world's most important food source and helps feed about half the globe's people. But yields in many areas will drop as the globe... read more

Marine Bacteria Race For Food Friday, March 14th, 2008 - 18:17:34 - Roni Barr Researchers at MIT recently proved that marine bacteria, the smallest creatures in the ocean, behave like goldfish at mealtime, dshing after flakes... read more

Team Probes Mysteries of Oceanic Bacteria Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 - 10:25:41 - Roni Barr A team of MIT researchers led by Professors Edward DeLong and Penny Chisholm is trying to change that by helping researchers get a better handle on... read more

Warming: Climate May Cause Tundra Wildfire Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 - 12:03:00 - Ehud Rattner A new research from Montana State University in Bozeman, US, claims that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible... read more

Tight Bond Between Dust and Past Climates Friday, February 29th, 2008 - 00:00:00 - Ehud Rattner Each year, long-distance winds drop up to 900 million tons of dust from deserts and other parts of the land into the oceans. Scientists from Columbia... read more

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