http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/24jun_wildweather/

NASA Science News for June 7, 2011

A new observatory is about to leave Earth to map a powerful compound of global importance: Common everyday sea salt.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/07jun_aquarius/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015219033_drought03.html

The wind in West Texas is famously powerful and incessant. But more big blows than anyone can remember have roared through this year, stripping away precious topsoil ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/75640/new-galaxy-zoo-project-crowd-sources-old-climate-data/

How Fire's Ecology Has Changed

Ever since humans have first seized fire, we have used it to our own ends, remade more and more of the biosphere, and fiercely guarded our monopoly.  The relationship is odd, unlike anything else on the planet -- more than the bonding of an artisan with a favored tool, more than the affinity between a herder and his ( Read more... )

More than open fires misplaced, missing, or mixed, industrial fire has emerged at the onset of the third millennium as the driver of planetary combustion. More and more, fire appears less as something that results from climate and increasingly as something that shapes climate. No longer does combustion seem contained within ancient ecological ( Read more... )

http://www.sphere.com/science/article/un-admits-error-in-overstating- ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01/22/scientist-discusses-latest-report-of-rising-global-temperatures/Read more... )

Global warming is real, and is likely to become catastrophic within a hundred years. Now, those of you reading this won't care about that, because you and I won't be alive then, but your children, children's children, and your great-grandchildren just might. Maybe.

The problem is that nothing we can do now will change that. It's already too ( Read more... )