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Some fast-growing cities in East Asia have experienced a dramatic increase in acid rain. […]

Study utilizes microorganism to turn carbon dioxide into industrial chemical. […]

Two new studies take a probabilistic approach to assess Antarctica's contribution to twenty-first-century global sea level changes. […]

Low-level clouds commonly found over Greenland helped keep temperatures above freezing in July 2012. […]

Leader of Journal of Climate paper says "... tendency to shift tropical rainfall northward...could mean increases in monsoon systems in Asia or shifts of the wet season from south to north in Africa and South America." […]

Low water levels continue to hamper shipping, but records may not be challenged again this year. […]

Hurricane Center looking at more products, more use of social media this season. […]

Throughout the day, including a session at the end, the talk at the AMS Washington Forum kept returning to community concerns ranging from the continuity of funding for Earth observations, science, and services, and the resulting risk of disruption of … Continue reading → […]

Snippets from the sessions and the hallways: (Some friendly advice from one quarter, in reaction to some back-of-the-envelope estimates of economic value of the enterprise) when doing economics studies, use economists…. and don’t just use economists for budget justification… use … Continue reading → […]

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell Speaking of “firsts,” … Continue reading → […]