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Atmospheric Science

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Sep-2025 09:11 ET (11-Sep-2025 13:11 GMT/UTC)

11-Jun-2025

A California dairy tried to capture its methane. It worked

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows the effectiveness of dairy digesters, which can reduce atmospheric methane emissions from farms by roughly 80 percent, a result that closely matches estimates California state officials have used in their climate planning.

11-Jun-2025

Lawn story: Turfgrass data may improve urban greenhouse gas emission estimates

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data that has been lost in the weeds — or more accurately the turfgrass — could help improve estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from urban areas, according to a team led by scientists at Penn State.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
Funder: National Institute of Standards and Technology

11-Jun-2025

Naval Research Laboratory and NASA launch joint effort to study wildfire-induced thunderstorms

Naval Research Laboratory
Business Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wildfires grow more intense and frequent across the globe, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are working to better understand a rare but powerful byproduct of these blazes: pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCbs.

10-Jun-2025

Tool identifies ecologically equivalent areas to guide restoration projects

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Model designed to comply with current legislation uses biodiversity, landscape, and ecosystem services data and could support public policies.

Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

10-Jun-2025

Cloud observations in the southern ocean pave the way to better climate models

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate models often overestimate ice clouds and underestimate supercooled liquid water (SLW) clouds in polar regions, skewing predictions of surface warming. To address this issue, researchers from Japan conducted a four-month observational study on the Southern Ocean. Through shipboard measurements, they found SLW clouds dominated as mid-level cloud layers, even at very low temperatures. These findings offer crucial data to improve the accuracy of climate models, which are critical in the face of climate change.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Institute of Polar Research

9-Jun-2025

Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellence

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Business Announcement

“Mount Sinai Health System is committed to helping create a cleaner tomorrow by elevating our environmental stewardship and strengthening our organizational culture and operational excellence,” says Muoi A. Trinh, MD, Medical Director of Sustainability, Mount Sinai Health System. “These awards are a visible testament to our work to support the health of our planet and the people who live on it.”

8-Jun-2025

New review uncovers how compound extreme events are becoming a hidden health crisis in China

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A newly published review reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to public health across China.

Journal: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters