Linking Climate and Habitability
Scientists are now learning how small shifts in climate can have dramatic consequences for the planet's environment and the life that depends on it.
(June '09)
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Transportation Pollution and Global Warming
Controlling pollution from transportation sources would greatly reduce black carbon and ozone emissions, which affect both climate and also human health.
(June '09)
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Particles Multi-Task to Change Climate
Tiny particulate matter in the atmosphere can both warm and cool the climate. Which effect is dominant, and will the balance change as the atmosphere warms due to greenhouse gases?
(May '09)
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The Ozone Hole and Global Warming
A new study examines possible connections between reduced Southern Hemisphere ozone and Northern Hemisphere Arctic warming.
(May '09)
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GISS Best Publication of 2008
GISS scientists voted "Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change" by Rosenzweig et al. as the top work among over 100 papers by institute staff published in 2008.
(May '09)
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New Observing Technique Turns Gray Skies Blue
A new detection technique and a new satellite instrument should help ease the struggle of detecting tiny particles in the air that may affect global climate.
(Mar '09)
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Climate-Research Satellite a Step Closer to Orbit
The Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor, an advanced scientific instrument to be launched on the Glory satellite, has successfully completed environmental testing.
(Mar '09)
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Cassini Watches as Change Comes to Titan
Part of the southern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan appears to have been flooded by a summer cloudburst of hydrocarbon rain, as seen in images taken before and after a storm.
(Jan '09)
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Satellites Confirm West Antarctic Warming
A new analysis has overturned the belief that global warming in Antarctica was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula and leaving the rest of the continent little affected.
(Jan '09)
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GISS Director Honored by AMS
Dr. James Hansen has been awarded the Rossby Research Medal by the American Meteorological Society for contributions to climate science and science communication.
(Jan '09)
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