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Breathing Cleaner Fumes
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Breathing Cleaner Fumes

There’s more than one way to study the impact of biofuels.

Published Oct 14, 2014

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Oceans Primed for Peak of Hurricane Season
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Oceans Primed for Peak of Hurricane Season

Sea surface temperatures are a fair predictor of the readiness of the ocean to fuel and sustain storms.

Published Aug 12, 2021

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Cyclone Tauktae Strikes India
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Cyclone Tauktae Strikes India

Tropical cyclones are scarce in the Arabian Sea, but unusually warm ocean temperatures helped fuel this storm.

Published May 17, 2021

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Atlantic Ocean Temperatures at End of June 2009
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Atlantic Ocean Temperatures at End of June 2009

This image of ocean temperatures on June 30, 2009, shows why storms that form in the early part of the Atlantic hurricane season tend to happen in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

Published Jul 2, 2009

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Dry Winds and Grasses Fuel Texas Fires
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Dry Winds and Grasses Fuel Texas Fires

More than 100,000 acres have burned in a mid-March wildfire outbreak.

Published Mar 21, 2022

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Feeding the Sea
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Feeding the Sea

Phytoplankton fuel ocean life by feeding other plankton, fish, and ultimately bigger creatures.

Published Aug 6, 2021

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Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in Puerto Rico
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Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in Puerto Rico

A plume of dark brown smoke billows northwest from a fire at a Puerto Rico fuel storage facility in this image from October 23, 2009.

Published Oct 27, 2009

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Dust Dampens Hurricane Formation
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Dust Dampens Hurricane Formation

Warm sea surface temperatures help fuel hurricanes, and in 2006, those temperatures were cooler than expected. Why the difference between 2005 and 2006? William Lau of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Kyu-Myong Kim of University of Maryland-Baltimore County think the answer comes from the Sahara, namely dust.

Published Apr 18, 2007

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Mapping Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Exploitation
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Mapping Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Exploitation

Scientists track the sources of 97 million metric tons of methane emissions.

Published Jan 25, 2022

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