Climate & Environment
- Hikers and trail runners be warned: Rattlesnakes and other venomous reptiles may bite more people during rainy years than in seasons wracked by drought, a new study shows.
- Side by Side is a community art and science event focused on barn swallows, a declining songbird species that nests exclusively in human-made spaces.
- Degraded alpine ecosystems showed limited recovery years after long-term inputs of human-caused nitrogen air pollution.
- Ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant, new NOAA/CIRES research shows.
- A new NOAA and NASA campaign investigates how the temperature of western U.S. wildfires affects the composition of their smoke.
- Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada due to climate change.
- Researchers have found a link between gravity waves in the upper and lower Antarctic atmosphere, helping create a clearer picture of global air circulation.
- As plant communities become more diverse and complex in the high alpine, so, too, do soil microorganisms, according to new research at CU Boulder.
- Researchers say that scant supplies of oxygen may have existed in Earth's ancient atmosphere.
- A CIRES and NOAA team has developed unmanned aircraft systems to collect weather data in the Arctic.