Alternative energy sources like wind offer a way to lessen a country’s carbon footprint. But global warming trends could soon change the way the wind blows.
As rapid arctic warming shrinks the heat gap between the North Pole and equator, Northern Hemisphere winds could lose some oomph — up to 40 percent over the next century, depending on region.
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Winds Of Climate Change: How Global Warming Could Alter The Wind Power Landscape
No cure exists for Lou Gehrig’s disease, a fatal neuromuscular illness affecting tens of thousands of Americans. But scientists may have found how a key protein helps drive its degenerative progress.
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UA, Barrow Researchers Explain ALS Key Protein Breakdown
Air traffic snarls and communication breakdowns can leave holiday flight plans up in the air. But NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration are working on a system they hope will break the logjam.
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NASA, FAA Partner To Upgrade Air Traffic Control
City lights drive back the night a little more each year, disrupting ecological cycles, and the switch from orange-yellow sodium lights to bluish-white LEDs might be making the problem worse.
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Artificial Light Pollution On The Rise Globally, LEDs Might Be Making It Worse
This week marks 25 years since more than 1,700 scientists, led by the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a “warning to humanity” concerning the costs of continued environmental destruction.
Now, they’ve issued another — this one signed by 15,000 scientists representing 184 countries.
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25 Years Later, Global Scientists Issue Second Warning To Humanity