11/23/2008
New ESA Plan Includes Defense, Space Transport Initiatives (Aviation Week & Space Technology)
$13-billion spending plan reflects expanded European space ambition
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11/22/2008
Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today's Society (Science Daily)
Our society is rushing to escape the energy culture as we know it, in order to remake it as we don't know it. The irony is that a marginal amount of planning -- continual improvement in mileage standards, closing of the loophole in those standards that exempted light trucks, steady federal investment in renewable energy -- might have alleviated the energy and climate crunch facing us today.
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11/22/2008
Climate researchers 'should cut their carbon footprint' (Nature)
Jet-setting scientists responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions.
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11/21/2008
Watt Now? (Newswise)
Want to understand why switching to renewable fuels is going to be so hard? This overview of alternative energy, fossil fuels and the climate challenge puts it all in perspective. Pay special attention to the chart.
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11/20/2008
Mile-thick glaciers found on Mars (Times Online)
Huge glaciers up to half a mile thick have been discovered close to the equator of Mars and are thought to be the remnants of an ice age on the planet.
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11/18/2008
Duke Environmental Dean Appointed to National Climate Change Committee (Duke University)
DURHAM, N.C. -– William L. Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, has been appointed vice chair of America’s Climate Choices, a new, multidisciplinary climate-change study by the National Academies.
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11/13/2008
Gore says no to 'Climate Czar' role (The Washington Times)
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is flirting with creating a White House "Climate Czar," but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn't want the job.
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11/12/2008
AGU journal highlights: Nov. 11, 2008 (EurekAlert!)
( American Geophysical Union ) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: Ups and downs of Greenland's ice sheet; Shrinking Arctic ice boosts phytoplankton growth; Comet-like tail of ion flux streams from Mars; Surface waves effects in deep ocean; Potential predictability for some earthquakes?; Magnetic fields reconnecting in near-Earth space; Studying Saturn's oxygen ...
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11/07/2008
Snow In The Arctic: An Ingredient In A Surprising Chemical Cocktail (Science Daily)
In the Arctic in spring, the snow cover gives off nitrogen oxides. This phenomenon, the extent of which had not been previously realized, is the source of one third of the nitrates present in the Arctic atmosphere, according to researchers. Scientists made a quantitative study of the origin and evolution of nitrogen compounds in the Arctic atmosphere, in order to understand their environmental ...
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11/06/2008
Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again (Environmental News Network)
The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according to a team led by MIT researchers.
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