Scientific American

MAY 9, 2024

Milestone observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal signs of an atmosphere on the inhospitably hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Carbon dioxide gas found throughout the atmosphere of Callisto hints it has a complex carbon cycle – akin to the one which on Earth helps to sustain life

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The stratosphere seems to be full of aluminium particles and other metals that come from spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere, and those particles could mess up polar clouds

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Atmosphere 119

New Scientist

DECEMBER 15, 2023

When springtime comes to Uranus's moons, the increased sunlight may cause ices on the surface to turn into gases, which would create tenuous temporary atmospheres

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Atmosphere 128

Scientific American

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The fungal pathogen that causes valley fever is thriving in the American West—and intensifying atmospheric rivers could be to blame

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Atmosphere 97

New Scientist

JANUARY 18, 2024

An attempt to land on the moon has ended in failure – Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was brought back to Earth to burn up as it plummeted through the atmosphere

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Atmosphere 98

Physics World

JUNE 17, 2022

Levels of helium-4 in the Earth’s atmosphere have been increasing since at least 1974, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, US that resolves a longstanding anomaly in atmospheric science. When the gas is extracted and burned, the helium is released into the atmosphere.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Signatures of ionized calcium in the upper atmosphere of an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like exoplanet have been found by international team of astronomers led by Emily Deibert at the University of Toronto. days and this stellar transit is visible from Earth, making WASP-76b an ideal candidate for atmospheric analysis.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tiny particles of plastic in the atmosphere can affect Earth’s climate, according to Laura Revell at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and colleagues. Yet even as airborne microplastics become an ever-larger part of the mix of atmospheric aerosols, their radiative influence is still virtually unknown. Altitude matters.

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Physics World

JANUARY 6, 2022

Pluto is less than 20% of the diameter of Earth and is on average six billion kilometres away, yet astronomers have been able to study its tenuous atmosphere since the 1980s. They chat about the joys of making new observations of Pluto’s evolving atmosphere, often by chasing its shadow here on Earth.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Cleaning up cancer cells: Richard Wirz and colleagues are developing a portable cold atmospheric plasma device for postsurgical cancer treatment. Cold atmospheric plasma could provide an alternative anti-cancer tool and is under investigation as a potential postsurgical treatment. Courtesy: Richard Wirz).

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Scientific American

JANUARY 11, 2023

California has been hit by repeated storms fueled by torrents of moisture called atmospheric rivers that will only intensify in a warming climate.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 23, 2023

Tsunamis trigger atmospheric disturbances that are picked up by GPS satellites – and an AI-powered monitoring system that detects the signals could alert us before the tsunami reaches coastal areas

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Atmosphere 95

Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Industries dependent on marine resources, such as fisheries and tourism, face significant threats from this environmental degradation.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Astronomers analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted signs of chemical reactions driven by star light in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2024

National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research. The laws of thermodynamics dictate that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, but new research has found that atmospheric moisture has not increased as expected over arid and semi-arid regions of the world as the climate has warmed.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 14, 2023

By Bob Berwyn The latest atmospheric river surging into California probably won’t result in worst-case flooding, state water officials and scientists said Monday. More frequent and moisture laden weather surges highlight how California’s wet and dry cycles are being sharpened by the warming climate.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Mauna Loa Observatory has kept a nearly uninterrupted record of atmospheric carbon dioxide for more than 60 years, but a volcanic eruption has cut off power

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New Scientist

APRIL 23, 2024

With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists think we should explore ways to block out solar radiation, but doing so would be risky

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Scientific American

APRIL 4, 2024

A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous

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Atmosphere 145

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2024

A pair of atmospheric rivers that drenched California in recent weeks will bolster the state’s hydropower systems by filling reservoirs and building up snowpack levels after a prolong drought cut supply, the state’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) data showed. Read the full story from Reuters.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Read the full story from e360. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 29, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) anticipates releasing the Draft Designation Documents for the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 25, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant world, and there is also an unexpected bump in the data

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New Scientist

MARCH 27, 2023

Many researchers thought the worlds orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 would have thick atmospheres, but new observations of one of them show that it doesn’t

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Atmosphere 79

New Scientist

JUNE 27, 2022

Worlds that hold onto their dense primordial atmospheres of hydrogen and helium may stay warm enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, even without starlight

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Atmosphere 98

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmospheric pressure can do it too if combined with certain conditions on the ground

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Atmosphere 76

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Read the full story from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth’s atmosphere, a new international study shows.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Read the full story from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth’s atmosphere, a new international study shows.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Uranus and Neptune appear to have less ammonia than expected, but it might have been hidden by slushy balls of ammonia and water that hail down deep into the planets’ atmospheres

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Atmosphere 99

New Scientist

JUNE 5, 2024

Earth’s energy imbalance, a key measure of global warming, has doubled in the past 20 years, raising concerns about how much heat the oceans are absorbing

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Atmosphere Ocean 136

Scientific American

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 31, 2023

New evidence of a previous Greenland meltdown suggests large parts of the ice sheet vanished at temperatures similar to today’s.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Earth’s atmosphere holds six times more fresh water than all of its rivers combined. Purdue University researchers have crunched the numbers and have the data to show which atmospheric water … Continue reading Atmospheric water harvesting: can we get water out of thin air? Read the full story from Purdue University.

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Atmosphere 59

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The lowest level of the atmosphere, called the troposphere, has been growing warmer and gaining thickness at a rate of 53 metres per decade since 2000

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. Therefore, most proposed routes to net zero also bank on our ability to capture carbon – at source or directly from the atmosphere – and store it securely over the long term.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 27, 2023

Human activities emit many kinds of pollutants into the air, and without a molecule called hydroxide (OH), many of these pollutants would keep aggregating in the atmosphere.

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