The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
Apr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
Feb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
May 17, 2021 · The second phase, SK-2, was completed in 2014–2018 in Anda County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. SK-2 drilled to a depth of 7,018 meters, the deepest ever by an ICDP project at the time ...
A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor - Eos
May 24, 2017 · A new bathymetry map, created by integrating many 3-D seismic surveys, reveals the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor in unprecedented detail. Above is a snippet of this map, roughly 220 kilometers wide ...
The Effect of Coral Bleaching Events in the Great Barrier Reef
May 31, 2019 · The heat stress made corals eject the symbiotic algae that live alongside the hard coral skeleton. When the algae leave, the remaining coral becomes a stark white color in a process known as ...
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Distributed Sensing and Machine Learning Hone Seismic Listening. Fiber-optic cables can provide a wealth of detailed data on subsurface vibrations from a wide range of sources. Machine learning offers a means to make sense of it all. by Whitney Trainor-Guitton, Eileen R. Martin, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos, Nicole Taverna and Vincent Dumont.
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
Sep 13, 2017 · Plankton that are plants, known as phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. As such, climate ...
Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Eos
Nov 22, 2019 · Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate. The ...
How Variations in Earth’s Orbit Triggered the Ice Ages - Eos
Jun 1, 2017 · For millennia, Earth’s climate has hinged on the behavior of ice: the cycle of glacier growth and retreat. These alternating glacial and interglacial periods coincide with variations in Earth ...
Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
Jul 15, 2021 · Eyewitness accounts describe hovering balls of light typically about 20 centimeters in diameter, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The balls appear white, yellow, orange, blue, or (rarely) green ...