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January 28, 2010
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming.
California's coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.
Civil engineers at the University of Washington have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin could be managed for a different climate.
February 16, 2010 | NCAR researchers are collaborating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Federal Aviation Administration, Purdue University, and Indiana State University on a program to study how bird-detecting radar at airports could help prevent dangerous airplane bird strikes, such as the incident with the U.S. Airways plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in...
January 28, 2010 | A new study led by NCAR scientist Peter Lawrence has found that impacts to Earth's hydrological cycle—not changes in the reflection or absorption of solar radiation—are the most important driving force in how human-caused land use changes affect climate. The findings contradict previous research and suggest that land cleared of forest for agriculture could have a greater...
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