Observing the Birkeland currents borne of the solar wind

  When the supersonic solar wind hits the Earth’s magnetic field, a powerful electrical connection occurs with Earth’s field, generating millions of amperes of current that drive the dazzling auroras. These…

Claim: Due to landscape fragmentation, Brazil's rainforests are releasing more carbon dioxide than previously thought

Effect has so far been missing in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been…

UAH Global Temperature Report: September 2014 temperature up from August

August global temperature was 0.19C, September is 0.29C Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade September temperatures (preliminary) Notes on data released Oct. 6, 2014: There…

Australia's History of Hot Tempers

Guest essay by Robert Balic: You might have noticed the Hand Print of Climate Change in Australia here or come across this graphic of the number of stations recording 45°C…