(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Tiny particles in air create smog, seed clouds and control how much of the sun's heat makes it through the atmosphere, and yet are the least understood aspect of climate research. The Department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the university of California, San Diego will focus on these particulates with the new Aerosol Chemistry and Climate Institute to better understand how aerosols from pollution, oceans and wildfires contribute to shifting regional weather.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new university of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new university of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.