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Nanomaterials Enable Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device

Dec. 2, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20 percent. The invention ...

Once in a Lifetime Floods to Become Regular Occurrences by End of Century

Dec. 2, 2020 — Superstorm Sandy brought flood-levels to the New York region that had not been seen in generations. Now, due to the impact of climate change, researchers have found that 100-year and 500-year flood ...

Jaguars Robust to Climate Extremes but Lack of Food Threatens Species

Nov. 30, 2020 — Researchers lead a world-first investigation into the chances of wild jaguars surviving climate extremes with six scenarios modelling the behavior, mating, births of cubs, competition, illegal ...

Shift in Atmospheric Rivers Could Affect Antarctic Sea Ice, Glaciers

Nov. 23, 2020 — Weather systems responsible for transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere have been gradually shifting toward the South Pole for the past 40 years, a ...

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Central Europe: Dry Aprils Pave the Way for Summer Droughts

Dec. 7, 2020 — In the past 20 years, Central Europe has experienced six summer heat waves and droughts. Until now, however, it was unclear what factors led to these extreme ...

Flow Physics Could Help Forecasters Predict Extreme Events

Nov. 23, 2020 — Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic ...

U.S.-European Mission Launches to Monitor the World's Oceans

Nov. 22, 2020 — The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea level collected by an ongoing collaboration of U.S. and European satellites while enhancing weather ...

'Oasis Effect' in Urban Parks Could Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Nov. 19, 2020 — Following a year of on-site analyses at a Phoenix-area park, hydrologists identified that the park showed what meteorologists call the 'oasis effect,' a microclimate that is cooler than a surrounding ...

Community Helps Scientists Evaluate Smoke Forecasts

Nov. 18, 2020 — Across the Wasatch Front, both researchers and community members maintain enough air quality sensors to provide a high-resolution picture of how the smoke moved through the valley -- perfect for ...

Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Tools in Puerto Rican Watersheds After Hurricane Maria

Nov. 18, 2020 — Researchers have further developed an innovative antibiotic resistance surveillance approach by applying DNA sequencing techniques to detect the ...

Upgraded Radar Can Enable Self-Driving Cars to See Clearly No Matter the Weather

Nov. 17, 2020 — A new kind of radar could make it possible for self-driving cars to navigate safely in bad weather. Electrical engineers developed a clever way to ...

Study Reconstructs Ancient Storms to Help Predict Changes in Tropical Cyclone Hotspot

Nov. 16, 2020 — New research reveals that tropical cyclones were actually more frequent in the southern Marshall Islands during the Little Ice Age, when temperatures ...

What Type of Forest to Choose for Better CO2 Storage?

Nov. 13, 2020 — An international team has studied which types of forest are the most effective in storing carbon. Inventory data from natural forests on five continents show that species diversity is optimal for ...

Love Waves from the Ocean Floor

Nov. 13, 2020 — Supercomputer simulations of planetary-scale interactions show how ocean storms and the structure of Earth's upper layers together generate much of the world's seismic waves. Decoding the faint but ...