Wildfire smoke evolves as it drifts from wilderness to city
Key insights Decades of fire-suppression policies have left forests rife with fuel to burn; either through wildfires…
Hunga Tonga’s record-breaking eruption removed 900 metric tons of methane per day
Satellite observations indicate that the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption plume destroyed about 900 ± 220 metric tons of…
Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750
Jacobson, M. Z. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature…
Peptides may persist in Venusian clouds
In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have long focused on one key ingredient: liquid water.…
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope solves the mystery of a planet that survived its Sun’s death |
A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted…
Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole | MIT News
The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective…
Scientists Stunned As Volcano Removes Methane From the Air
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption on January 15, 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption.…
The Ozone Layer Is Healing, But There’s a Hidden Catch
Unexpected leaks from industrial chemicals are slowing the ozone layer’s recovery. Cutting these emissions could help the ozone…
How COVID shutdowns led to a methane surge
In the early 2020s, as societies around the world shut down to protect their people from the…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
We applied two complementary spectroscopic eclipse mapping methods to the data: Eigenspectra7 and ThERESA29. We used two methods…
Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen
arising from: C. Gong et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07714-4 (2024). The net climate effect of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr)…
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena
This study provided a preliminary test of hypothesized associations between short-lived star-like transients identified in POSS-I sky survey…