Climate change threatens the health of billions of people, especially those who contribute least to climate change, but many strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions can improve health in the near term. The new report…
Effects of melting glaciers on food production in South Asia
Kathmandu— Millions of farmers in South Asia depend on meltwater from the Himalayas. Melting glaciers, rainwater, and groundwater allow farmers downstream to irrigate their crops. Using a novel model, an international team of researchers determined…
World’s dusty airports degrade aircraft engines
MUNICH — The ominous approach of a sky-high haboob can fray the nerves of travelers awaiting flights out of the world’s desert airports. As air traffic continues its decades-long increase — after a brief COVID-19 hiatus —…
Observing molecules inside a nanometer-sized “sardine can”
Researchers from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Engineering have successfully developed a new technique allowing them to observe gas molecules packing into metal-organic frameworks (MOF) using infrared spectroscopy. Their innovation was to measure…
CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude
Aerosol particles can form and grow in Earth’s upper troposphere in an unexpected way, reports the CLOUD collaboration in a paper published in Nature. The new mechanism may represent a major source of cloud and ice seed particles in…