Google Pioneered Stratospheric Loon Balloons. Was China Watching?
Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in early 2021. It was a business decision, not a reflection on the technology—basically, its mission became moot as remote…
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A new approach to waste incineration removes CO2 from the atmosphere
Our waste contains large volumes of CO2. Researcher Michael Becidan at SINTEF…
What Would Earth’s Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere?
OK, a couple of quick points. This is just the surface temperature of the Earth. Since the light from the sun just hits the surface and the Earth radiates…
Slime for the climate, delivered by brown algae: In form of fucoidan, brown algae could remove up to…
Brown algae are true wonder plants when it comes to absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. They even outcompete forests on land in this, and thus play a…
How the current Southwestern North American megadrought is affecting Earth’s upper atmosphere…
New research, based on two decades' worth of data, shows that in the ten years after its onset in 2000, the Southwestern North American (SWNA) megadrought…
JWST peers into the atmosphere of an exoplanet bombarded by stellar radiation
This week, astronomers announced that they’d found evidence of chemical reactions in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 700 light years away from Earth.…
An exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored another first: a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world's skies.
The telescope's array…
Air Quality Mirrors the Racial Segregation of US Neighborhoods
Racial inequity biases algorithms, skews Covid-19 death rates, and exacerbates the digital divide. Your race is even a good predictor of what’s in the air…
China has yet another uncontrollable, falling rocket reentering the Earth’s atmosphere-…
Mehul Reuben DasNov 01, 2022 17:52:17 ISTThis week, the Chinese space program successfully launched the final piece of their own version of the Tiangong…
There was a record-breaking increase in methane in Earth’s atmosphere last year
Concentrations of a super potent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere — methane — grew tremendously in 2021. It’s still something of a mystery why the world saw…