Wildfires burning in the northwest could cause some “Thursday Night Football” issues for the Giants and 49ers. The Week 3 kickoff game — and the 49ers’ home opener — is set for 8:15 p.m. ET at Levi’s Stadium as the San Francisco area is blanketed in smoke. Smoke from the rural wildfires in northwest California … Read more
In the new study, researchers developed a process to systematically identify areas of agreement and disagreement among three individual state-of-the-art air-quality datasets: satellite observations, a simulation developed at Northwestern and sensors from Microsoft Research’s Project Eclipse. Although one or two datasets identified multiple areas as NO2 hotspots, all three datasets consistently flagged Chicago’s West Side … Read more
As renewable energy sources like wind and solar ramp up, they can be used to sustainably generate hydrogen fuel. But implementing such a strategy on a large scale requires land and water dedicated to this purpose. Recent research in Nature Communications led by Carnegie’s Lorenzo Rosa and visiting scholar Davide Tonelli from ULB and UCLouvain … Read more
New research by the University of Oxford reveals that sewage discharge into rivers has a greater impact on water quality, and the animals and plants that live in rivers, than surrounding land use. The findings have been published today in the journals Global Change Biology and Ecological Solutions and Evidence. Rivers are crucial parts of … Read more
In the “weather kitchen,” the interplay between the Azores High and Icelandic Low has a substantial effect on how much warm water the Atlantic transports to the Arctic along the Norwegian coast. But this rhythm can be thrown off for years at a time. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and … Read more
Researchers observed an 8% increase in breast cancer incidence for people living in areas with higher PM2.5 exposure Representative photo: iStock Residing in an area with high levels of particulate matter of 2.5 microns or smaller (PM2.5) pollution is associated with increased breast cancer risk, found a new study. The findings of the study conducted … Read more