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Inside the fuel cell: Imaging method promises industrial insight

Science Daily - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 10:53
Hydrogen-containing substances are important for many industries, but scientists have struggled to obtain detailed images to understand the element's behavior. Researchers now demonstrate the quantification of hydrogen for different states of water -- i.e., liquid, frozen and supercooled -- for applications to eco-friendly fuel cells.

Population aging to create pockets of climate vulnerability in the US

Science Daily - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 10:22
Population aging projections across the US show a divide between cities and rural areas, which could lead to pockets of vulnerability to climate change.

New study analyzes FEMA-funded home buyout program

Science Daily - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:32
An analysis of FEMA's 30-year-old property buyout program offers new insight into the growing debate on managed retreat -- moving people and assets out of flood-prone areas.

Solution to Ice Age ocean chemistry puzzle

Science Daily - Thu, 10/10/2019 - 08:57
New research into the chemistry of the oceans during ice ages is helping to solve a puzzle that has engaged scientists for more than two decades. At issue is how much of the CO2 that entered the ocean during ice ages can be attributed to the 'biological pump', where atmospheric carbon is absorbed by phytoplankton and sequestered to the seafloor as organisms die and sink.

Warm ocean water attacking edges of Antarctica's ice shelves

Science Daily - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 13:29
Upside-down 'rivers' of warm ocean water are eroding the fractured edges of thick, floating Antarctic ice shelves from below, helping to create conditions that lead to ice-shelf breakup and sea-level rise, according to a new study. The findings describe a new process important to the future of Antarctica's ice and the continent's contribution to rising seas. Models and forecasts do not yet account for the newly understood and troubling scenario, which is already underway.

Study recommends special protection of emperor penguins

Science Daily - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 20:21
Researchers recommend additional measures to protect and conserve one of the most iconic Antarctic species -- the emperor penguin (Aptenodyptes forsteri).

Study of past California wildfire activity suggest climate change will worsen future fires

Science Daily - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 09:46
A new study finds that climate has been the dominant controller of wildfire activity in the Sierra Nevada region of the past 1,400 years, suggesting that future climate change is poised to make fires worse.

Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today

Science Daily - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 14:34
To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must reconstruct the ecosystems in which they lived. Because putting together the puzzle of millions-of-years-old ecosystems is a difficult task, many studies draw analogies with present-day African ecosystems, such as the Serengeti. A new study calls into question such approaches and suggests that the vast majority of human evolution occurred in ecosystems unlike any found today.

Early breeding season for some Arctic seabirds due global warming

Science Daily - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 10:33
The breeding season of some seabirds in Arctic regions takes place earlier as a result of the temperature rise caused by climate change, according to a new article.

Disappearing Peruvian glaciers

Science Daily - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 09:04
It is common knowledge that glaciers are melting in most areas across the globe. The speed at which tropical glaciers in the Peruvian Andes are retreating is particularly alarming, however. In the first detailed investigation of all Peruvian mountain ranges, a research team has ascertained a drastic reduction of almost 30 percent in the area covered by glaciers between 2000 and 2016.

The last mammoths died on a remote island

Science Daily - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 07:17
Isolation, extreme weather, and the possible arrival of humans may have killed off the holocene herbivores just 4,000 years ago.

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Science Daily - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 09:56
Working with the ice core ReCap, drilled close to the coast in East Greenland, researchers wondered why the dust particles from the interglacial period -- the warmer period of time between the ice ages -- were several times bigger than the dust particles from the ice age. The research led to the invention of a method able to map the advancement of the glaciers in cold periods and the melting in warmer periods.

Laser precision: NASA flights, satellite align over sea ice

Science Daily - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 10:40
The skies were clear, the winds were low, and the lasers aligned. In April, instruments aboard NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign and the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 succeeded in measuring the same Arctic sea ice at the same time, a tricky feat given the shifting sea ice.

Northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions

Science Daily - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 10:40
Winter conditions are changing more rapidly than any other season and researchers have found clear signs of a decline in frost days, snow covered days and other indicators of winter that could have lasting impacts on ecosystems, water supplies, the economy, tourism and human health.

African evidence support Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Science Daily - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 10:03
A team of scientists from South Africa has discovered evidence partially supporting a hypothesis that Earth was struck by a meteorite or asteroid 12,800 years ago, leading to global consequences including climate change, and contributing to the extinction of many species of large animals at the time of an episode called the Younger Dryas.

Thousands of meltwater lakes mapped on the east Antarctic ice sheet

Science Daily - Thu, 09/26/2019 - 09:58
The number of meltwater lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more significant than previously thought, according to new research.

Humankind did not live with a high-carbon dioxide atmosphere until 1965

Science Daily - Wed, 09/25/2019 - 11:34
Humans have never before lived with the high carbon dioxide atmospheric conditions that have become the norm on Earth in the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Croc-like carnivores terrorized Triassic dinosaurs in southern Africa 210 million years ago

Science Daily - Mon, 09/23/2019 - 09:41
Giant, predatory croc-like animals that lived during the Triassic period in southern Africa preyed on early dinosaurs and mammal relatives 210 million years ago. These predators, known as 'rauisuchians' preyed on early herbivore dinosaurs and their mammal relatives living at the time.

New evidence of the Sahara's age

Science Daily - Mon, 09/23/2019 - 09:19
The Sahara Desert is vast, generously dusty, and surprisingly shy about its age. New research looking into what appears to be dust that the Sahara blew over to the Canary Islands is providing the first direct evidence from dry land that the age of the Sahara matches that found in deep-sea sediments: at least 4.6 million years old.

Why are mountains so high? It doesn't add up

Science Daily - Mon, 09/23/2019 - 08:31
Researchers have analyzed mountain ranges worldwide to show that a theory relating erosion and mountain height doesn't always add up.

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