Nov 22 2017

NASA Views Severe Rain Storms Over Western Saudi Arabia

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As intense rain storms moved into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 21, NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM core satellite analyzed the severe storms.
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Nov 22 2017

Satellite Shows Storms on Both U.S. Coasts for Thanksgiving Travelers

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Satellites are keeping an eye on the U.S. and NOAA’s GOES East satellite showed two storm systems for pre-Thanksgiving travelers on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. One system was exiting the northeastern U.S. while the other was affecting the Pacific Northwest.
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Nov 22 2017

Do Birdsong and Human Speech Share Biological Roots?

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Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?
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Nov 22 2017

Methane Bubbles Are Effect and Cause of Rise in Temperature

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"Never before have such unequivocal, strong relationships between temperature and emissions of methane bubbles been shown on such a wide, continent-spanning scale.", says biologist Sarian Kosten of Radboud University.
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Nov 22 2017

The Genome of Leishmania Reveals How This Parasite Adapts to Environmental Changes

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Leishmaniasis is an important human and veterinary disease caused by Leishmania parasites that affect 12 million people in over 98 endemic countries. The disease is now emerging in Europe due to climate change and massive population displacement. The parasite is known to rapidly adapt to novel environments with important consequences for disease outcome. It has therefore been recognized as an emerging public health threat for the EU.
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Nov 22 2017

Reducing Phosphorus Runoff

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Throughout the United States, toxic algal blooms are wreaking havoc on bodies of water, causing pollution and having harmful effects on people, fish and marine mammals.
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Nov 22 2017

Scientific team selected to conduct independent abundance estimate of red snapper in Gulf of Mexico

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A team of university and government scientists, selected by an expert review panel convened by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.“American communities across the Gulf of Mexico depend on their access to, as well as the long term sustainability of, red snapper,” said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “I look forward to the insights this project will provide as we study and manage this valuable resource.”
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Nov 21 2017

Unexpected Atmospheric Vortex Behaviour on Saturn's Moon Titan

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A new study, led by a University of Bristol earth scientist, has shown that recently reported unexpected behaviour on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is due to its unique atmospheric chemistry.
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Nov 21 2017

Albatrosses in decline from fishing and environmental change

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The populations of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses have halved over the last 35 years on sub-antarctic Bird Island according to a new study published today (20 November) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Nov 21 2017

Corn Genetics Research Exposes Mechanism Behind Traits Becoming Silent

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For more than a century, plant geneticists have been studying maize as a model system to understand the rules governing the inheritance of traits, and a team of researchers recently unveiled a previously unknown mechanism that triggers gene silencing in corn.
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