Archive for the ‘Atmospheric science’ Category

  • No joke: Laughing gas attacks ozone!
    No joke: Laughing gas attacks ozone!

    The ozone layer protects Earth from UV rays: Twenty-two years after a treaty to protect ozone, how is the layer doing? What has happened to the ozone hole above Antarctica?


    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
  • Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming?
    Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming?

    Carbon tax or carbon trading? As the United Nations gets set for (another!) pow-wow on global warming, policy wonks are focusing on two mechanisms to reduce carbon pollution. Which gets more control at a lower price: carbon tax or carbon cap-and-trade?


    Thursday, December 4th, 2008
  • Ultimate Storm: What are hurricanes?
    Ultimate Storm: What are hurricanes?

    How do they form? How do we predict their paths? How can we improve predictions?


    Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
  • Winter’s Weird Weather: What’s the Cause?

    Some call it Fall. Some call it spring. But nobody in the Midwest, East Coast or Northern Europe is calling it “winter.” What’s up with our weather?


    Thursday, January 11th, 2007
  • Antarctic Ozone Hole Sets New Record

    Measurements show a huge ozone hole. How can this happen? We thought ozone-destroying chemicals were being phased out…


    Thursday, October 26th, 2006
  • Farming: Does it Change the Climate?

    Land use: When it changes, so does the climate! The plow and the thermometer: What relationship?


    Thursday, December 8th, 2005
  • Your Air: Breathe with Care

    Farms release airborne, drug-resistant bacteria, and indoor air could be making you sick. More news about the particles we breathe every day.


    Thursday, April 7th, 2005
  • Climate Change: It Can Happen Fast!

    Evidence from ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica show how fast the climate has changed in the past. In this era of global warming, you can’t count on a slow, gradual, predictable warming.


    Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
  • Tornadoes: Power & Fury

    Tornadoes kill 60 Americans each year. How do we predict tornadoes? How do we make houses safer? Where do tornadoes get their energy?


    Monday, May 12th, 2003
  • Shuttle Discoveries

    What was learned on Columbia’s last, tragic mission?


    Thursday, February 6th, 2003


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