‘Earth Systems Science’
New research and scientific studies on the state of our planet, climate change, oceans, forests, land-use restoration of ecosystems damaged by human activities.
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NOAA to issue 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook on May 23
NOAA to issue 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook on May 23 Contact Maureen O'Leary, [email protected], 301-713-0622 May 21, 2013 NOAA will issue its initial outlook for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season during a news conference at the [...]
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News :
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News 'Whodunnit' of Irish potato famine solved New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks The mammoth's lament: How cosmic impact sparked devastating climate change Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity Do salamanders' immune [...]
Shifts in Global Water Systems – Markers of a New Geological Epoch: the Anthropocene
A new geologic epoch, "The Anthropocene," is characterized by humanity's growing dominance of Earth's environment and a planetary transformation as profound as the last epoch-defining event -- the retreat of the glaciers 11,500 years ago. By way of illustration: Humanity has cleared an area the size of South America to grow food crops [...]
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes How should geophysics contribute to disaster planning? Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency World's biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously [...]
NOAA to issue 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook on May 23
NOAA to issue 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook on May 23 Contact Maureen O'Leary, [email protected], 301-713-0622 May 16, 2013 NOAA will issue its initial outlook for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season during a news conference at the NOAA [...]
NOAA releases final report of Sandy service assessment
NOAA releases final report of Sandy service assessment Contact Susan Buchanan, [email protected], 301-713-0622 May 15, 2013 After a thoughtful and deliberate review, today NOAA released a report on the National Weather Service's performance [...]
NOAA releases final report of Sandy service assessment
NOAA releases final report of Sandy service assessment Contact Susan Buchanan, [email protected], 301-713-0622 May 15, 2013 After a thoughtful and deliberate review, today NOAA released a report on the National Weather Service's performance during [...]
Measuring the Sustainability of Business: From Economism To Earth Systems Science
By Hazel Henderson When US astronaut Dr. Sally Ride returned from her space trip in 1983, she exclaimed that NASA should have a Mission To Planet Earth! This led to NASA’s “Earth”, an ongoing program of research into how our planet functions based on Earth Systems Science. I was a science policy wonk in Washington, D.C. from 1974 until [...]
Waste Free Oceans Newsletter: WFO and the Black Sea Commission
On the 21st November 2012, Mr Bernard Merkx, Project Manager of WFO was invited to present the Waste Free Oceans Foundation to the Board of the Black Sea Commission during their yearly meeting. This meeting was also attended by both the president and director of the International Commission for Protection of Danube River (ICPDR), so [...]
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : Carbon dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Carbon dioxide at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million Sacred lotus genome sequence enlightens scientists Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity Earliest archaeological evidence of human [...]
