MIT team describes unique cloud forest
...ldebrandt, because it "is a water-limited seasonal cloud forest" that is kept alive by water droplets gathe...ntact with clouds than via rainfall. In general, cloud forests are not really rare. But they occur most frequently in moist tropical regions where there is...Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan
...) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below. The cloud may be the clue needed in s...Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows
...t pens along the migration routes. The result is a cloud of sea lice through which the juveniles must migrate. "It takes only one or two sea lice to kill a juvenile pink or chum salmon," said Krkosek. "The juveniles are so vulnerable because they are so small only one to two inches long." "We often worr...Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change
...biosphere grew out of efforts to explain increased cloud cover observed over an area of the Southern Ocean ...ytoplankton may have contributed to a doubling of cloud droplet concentrations seen over a large area of ocean off the eastern coast of South America. U...The Milky Way shaped life on Earth
...biological productivity through their influence on cloud formation. Hence, the stellar baby boom 2.4 billio...hilling effect on Earth probably by increasing the cloud cover. This is one of a number of new perspectives on climate change arising from the discovery th...Brain, behavior may have changed as social insect colonies evolved
... wasp Mischocyttarus mastigophorus in the tropical cloud forest near Monteverde, Costa Rica. These wasps live in colonies ranging in size from a handful to several dozen individuals where the division of labor is governed by aggression. The researchers examined an area of the insects' brain called the mu...Breakthrough for future exploration unrecoverable gas reserves
...cles. This condensate can be compared to the small cloud of vapor that appears when opening a bottle of champagne. The natural gas and the condensed droplets subsequently flow through a rotating cylinder. In this cylinder, which is made up of many thin channels, the centrifugal powers press the droplets to...Novel laboratory technique nudges genes into activity
...sult in disease. Surrounding the chromosome is a cloud of proteins that helps determine whether or not a particular genes instructions are "read" and "copied" to strands of messenger RNA, which then ferry the plans to protein-making "factories" in the cell. In its experiments, the UT Southwestern team...Cloning the smell of the seaside
...he gas plays an important role in the formation of cloud cover over the oceans, with major effects on climate. Indeed, the phenomenon was used by James Lovelock as a plank to underpin his 'Gaia hypothesis'. DMS is also a remarkably effective food marker for ocean-going birds such as shearwaters and petr...UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic
...emperatures, wind speed and direction, visibility, cloud cover and atmospheric pressure. "As a student it was an amazing once in a lifetime experience getting to observe scientists from different countries as they conducted their own research studies," said Cicek. Other ongoing projects included obser...Authors, illustrator win AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
...ds in Kashmir, and bats in Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest. There are encounters with wildebeest on the Serengeti, the ancient vegetation of New Caledonia, prairie dogs and bison on North America's Great Plains, and the fauna and flora (endemic and introduced) of the Galpagos. Woven into his narrative...The insides of clouds may be the key to climate change
...e and dust that form droplets in clouds and change cloud thickness, affect how much sun is able to pass through the cloud to Earth, as well as the amount of moisture that's returned to Earth. Both moisture and sunlight pla...Carnegie Mellon researchers urge regulators to rethink strategies for soot emission
...ly more toxic and may have a stronger influence on cloud formation that can alter the global climate. "On...nd affect how much sun is able to pass through the cloud to earth, as well as the amount of moisture that is returned to earth. Both clouds and sunlight play...Scientists uncover link between ocean's chemical processes and microscopic floating plants
...id Wingenter. These aerosols can act as nuclei for cloud formation. Increased cloudiness could block sunlight, thereby cooling Earth. "Therefore, additional DMS production in a higher carbon dioxide environment may help contribute to self-regulation of Earth's climate." "The bottom line is that carbon diox...New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra
...erally darker than the mainland species, has small cloud markings, many distinct spots within the cloud markings, grayer fur, and a double dorsal stripe. Clouded leopards from the mainland have large clou...ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X
...te will operate independent of weather conditions, cloud coverage and illumination, and will be capable of delivering data at a resolution of up to 1 metre. Using SCOS-2000, TerraSAR-X will be controlled from the German Space Operations Centre, located at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen facility near Munich. ...Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
...ne how the dust and soot modifies storm tracks and cloud systems across the Pacific, which influence North ...ures by interacting with large-scale, mid-latitude cloud systems over the Pacific that reflect enormous amounts of sunlight and help regulate global climate....When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves
...s, Reed's team exposed mouse olfactory nerves to a cloud of toxic methyl-bromide gas. Methyl bromide kills not only olfactory nerve cells but also neighboring, non-nerve cells in the nasal passage. Three weeks after chemical exposure, the researchers examined nasal cells to see which, if any, had grown bac......algorithm including tools for ortho-rectification, cloud screening and full atmospheric correction, which accounts also for aerosol. The global land cover map, which is ten times sharper than any previous global satellite map, is derived by an automatic and regionally adjusted classification of the MERI...