Category Archives: Carbon

Connecting pollutants and air temperature in the Maldives

With climate change, there are many relationships that are understood, and many others that are not.  Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan from The Scripps Institute in San Diego has spent the last fifteen years in the Maldives, a nation south of India that … Continue reading

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An interesting relationship: soil temperature and climate change

It seems common place that warmer air temperature leads to warmer soil temperature. And while this relationship seems intuitive, the effect isn’t always studied, especially with respect to the response from microorganisms. That is why researchers are investigating what happens … Continue reading

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Volcanic Eruptions and Cooling of the Planet

By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate The recent volcanic eruption in Iceland marked by the spectacular “curtain-of-fire” and near-complete shut-down of air travel in Europe in mid-April will probably earn a place … Continue reading

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If you knew the future depended on it, would you turn off the lights you aren’t using?

By Dr. Lin Chambers, NASA Scientist for GLOBE A few weeks ago I spent an evening visiting relatives (they shall remain unidentified to protect the guilty).  When I arrived at the house, there were several lights on.  I rang the … Continue reading

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Understanding Why Climate Change is Human-Induced: A Day in the Life of the Earth

guest blog by Dr. Jeff Goldstein, Science Educator and Planetary Scientist and Director of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, reprinted from Dr. Jeff’s Blog on the Universe, posted 13 June 2009, with permission of the author … Continue reading

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