Weather

Future Nokia phones may double as lightning detectors
By: Stephen Withers

Your mobile phone is already a music player, a camera, a games console and an Internet access device, so why not make it a lightning detector too? That's the plan set out in a Nokia patent application.

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Weather forecasting while you fly
By: William Atkins

The Boeing Company has filed a patent application so that aircraft could contain weather-sensing devices to collect real-time weather forecasting data as they fly around the world.
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Boston Marathon held during Nor’Eastern but astronaut Williams has perfect weather
By: William Atkins

Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, qualified for the Boston Marathon and will be running the race from a treadmill with highly controlled weather conditions, as opposed to the other 24,000 participants who will be fighting fierce storms that are also racing across the area.
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Action on warming could curb nightmare impacts
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

OSLO (Reuters) - Cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases can mute the worst impacts of global warming, such as water shortages for billions of people or extinction of almost half of Amazonian tree species, a draft U.N. report shows.

NASA twin STEREO spacecraft prepare to eyeball the Sun
By: William Atkins

A pair of NASA solar observatory probes called STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is positioning themselves apart in space so they can take three-dimensional images of activities on the Sun.

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Scientist reports that cosmic rays cause much of Earth’s global warming
By: William Atkins

Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has concluded that the Earth is experiencing less cloud cover because cosmic rays are not entering the atmosphere as frequently as normal. Consequently, Svensmark says that cosmic rays, not human-made carbon dioxide emissions, are largely responsible for global warming.

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Brazil's Lula blasts rich nations on climate
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed wealthy countries for global warming on Tuesday and said they should stop telling Brazil what to do with the Amazon rainforest.

One endangered Whooping crane survives Florida storm
By: William Atkins

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, one young male Whooping crane was found alive after deadly violent storms raced across central Florida on Friday, February 2, 2007. Initially, all 18 endangered birds were feared killed in Citrus Country, Florida, where they had been transferred through a Whooping crane project to reestablish a migratory route for the birds.

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Tankers may ship water to parched cities of future
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

LONDON (Reuters) - Fleets of supertankers could one day ply the world's oceans laden not with oil but fresh water.

Global warming threatens Australia's Barrier reef
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

CANBERRA (Reuters) - From a boat at sea, Australia's Great Barrier Reef seems invincible -- its myriad corals stretching 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) beyond sight.

NASA Cassini spacecraft photographs cloud system on Saturn’s moon Titan
By: William Atkins

Detailed images produced by the Cassini spacecraft on December 29, 2006, show a cloud formation about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) in diameter at Titan’s north-pole region. Scientists had never before actually seen such a detailed cloud system on Titan, but had predicted its possible existence.

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Space weapons specialist believes Chinese anti-ballistic test was legal
By: William Atkins

According to a recent article in New Scientist, the Chinese anti-ballistic test held on January 11, 2007, in which China destroyed one of its own weather satellites with a ballistic missile, was legal.

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Millions to go hungry, waterless: climate report
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.

Global environment fund gives money to dirty fuel
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The world's biggest fund for environmental projects is investing for the first time in a non-renewable, polluting fuel -- coal -- in what it says is a new pragmatic approach to the energy needs of the developing world.

U.N. climate panel to project wrenching change
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

OSLO (Reuters) - A U.N. climate panel will project wrenching disruptions to nature by 2100 in a report next week blaming human use of fossil fuels more clearly than ever for global warming, scientific sources said.

NASA’s JOULE II mission launches 4 rockets to study Northern Lights above Alaska
By: William Atkins

On January 19, 2007 (starting at about 3:29 Alaska Standard Time), NASA launched a project called JOULE II that consists of four rockets to study the aurora display over the skies of northern Alaska. The mission is geared to learn more about the electrical heating of the thin upper atmosphere above the Earth’s surface.

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The saying ‘no two snowflakes are alike’ may be false
By: William Atkins

Snowflakes and ice crystals are being scientifically studied because they may play an important role in the overall climate of the Earth, especially with regard to global changes. Researchers say that the smallest snow crystals—simple ones that fall to the ground before fully developed—could be identical, possibly refuting the adage that ‘no two snowflakes are alike’.

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THEMIS five-satellite spacecraft to study magnetic space storms
By: William Atkins

THEMIS is a group of five satellites that will study the Earth’s magnetic field (the magnetosphere) and improve our understanding of the world’s weather. It will be launched by NASA in February 2007. THEMIS project manager Peter Harvey, of the University of California at Berkeley, says of the mission: “We look forward to some terrific scientific discoveries.”

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