Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an […]
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Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter: …Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge, and […]
SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Cloudbusting” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s […]
The mushrooms that make the weather.
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds: The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water […]
Earthquake warnings from above.
MIT’s Technology Review takes an interesting look at some atmospheric findings – hot flashes in the air, basically – that could help predict earthquakes: Dimitar […]
Northern Lights… from above.
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles: [via Yahoo!News]
Hurricane from orbit.
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station. [via]
Desert feeds jungle.
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest: Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing […]
Science Art: Von Karman Vortices
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
Science Art: S125-E-007900 (Canary Islands Vortices), STS-125 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. […]
Clouds of germs (and germs of clouds).
PhysOrg.com has a new piece of the climate change puzzle, a discovery some call the “holy grail” of climate science: The effects of tiny airborne […]
Science Art: Cloud, dust storm over central China, 6-3-2002
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
SONG: Now the Snow
SONG:Now the Snow [Download] . (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008, as cited […]
It falls everywhere.
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars: iTwire reports: Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is […]