Tagged: atmosphere

Featured image: What Earth would be like if we hadn’t pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

What Earth would be like if we hadn’t pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Jun 24, 2020 •

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz This week, Climate Explained answers two similar questions. If humans had not contributed to greenhouses gases in any … Read More

Featured image: Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate

Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 16, 2019 •

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! … Read More

Featured image: The fishy problem of underwater noise pollution

The fishy problem of underwater noise pollution - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 13, 2018 •

Adam Crane, University of Saskatchewan and Maud Ferrari, University of Saskatchewan This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When the famous explorer Jacques Cousteau released The Silent World, a documentary of his underwater adventures in 1953, he inspired generations of scientists to study the world’s oceans. We now know … Read More

Featured image: Jupiter: scientists spot pentagon pattern of cyclones – and unlock secrets of the planet’s interior

Jupiter: scientists spot pentagon pattern of cyclones – and unlock secrets of the planet’s interior - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 09, 2018 •

Andrew Coates, UCL This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts – this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These stunning structures are powered by fast jet streams that are visible in the planet’s clouds. But what … Read More

Featured image: A brief history of Martian exploration – as the InSight Lander prepares to launch

A brief history of Martian exploration – as the InSight Lander prepares to launch - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 22, 2018 •

Helen Maynard-Casely, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Roughly every two years Mars and Earth wander a bit closer to each other, making the leap between these two planets a little easier. In July this year, Mars will only be about 58 million kilometres away – and NASA is set to take advantage by launching their next mission … Read More

Featured image: NIWA Summer Series – Native forests suck in carbon dioxide

NIWA Summer Series – Native forests suck in carbon dioxide - Unsorted

Guest Author • Dec 22, 2017 •

New Zealand’s forests and other land areas may be absorbing up to 60% more carbon dioxide than has been calculated, with much of this uptake likely occurring in native forests. This research, revealed in February, and led by NIWA atmospheric scientists Drs Kay Steinkamp and Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, indicates that New Zealand’s forests absorb much more carbon dioxide than previously … Read More

Featured image: Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100 - Guest Work

Guest Author • Aug 02, 2017 •

By Guang Zeng, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Jason West, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe, which leads to lung disease, heart conditions, and stroke. Less rain and more heat means this pollution will stay … Read More

Featured image: Kitchen Science: gastrophysics brings the universe into your kitchen

Kitchen Science: gastrophysics brings the universe into your kitchen - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 29, 2016 •

By Stephen Hughes, Queensland University of Technology This title will probably come as a surprise to you. Astrophysics concerns enormous scales of space, time and energy; kitchens are relatively small, homely places. So how can there be a connection between astrophysics and the kitchen? Have you ever dropped a just-opened plastic bottle of milk or fruit juice … Read More

A year’s weather in 8 minutes (and other things) - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 30, 2014 •

From the team at EUTMETSAT: all the weather of 2013 as seen from the world’s weather-watching satellites. It’s an HD video, so a slow download on my rural NZ treacleband internet connection, but worth every second of the wait. I strongly recommend clicking the full screen button (bottom right corner), and multiple viewings. Fascinating, with […] … Read More