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While yardsticks may be sufficiently-suited for measuring snow levels for some applications, they are entirely inadequate for planning vital decisions in terms of transportation, water management and other such situations. Scientists are now using GPS and lasers to develop a new measuring method. Specialized lasers ... |
14 February 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Global warming is already displaying widespread negative effects. One of them can ruin an ancient tradition, by making the popular mistletoe go extinct. Its decline is linked to a severe drought compromising crops and wide surfaces of agricultural land in the US, especially in Texas, Mother Nature Network informs. ... |
27 December 2011
07:12 GMT |
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It seems Google is not done with the winter holiday celebrations and Easter Eggs. It may not snow much, or at all, in Mountain View, California, but there's plenty of snow on Google sites.The latest to be added do the list is YouTube, which now gets a snow-making option which, you guessed it, makes it snow insid... |
22 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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It doesn't snow much in California, where Google is located. Specifically, it never snows in California where Google is located. But if you're Google you can make it snow, both online and, it seems, offline.The company has set up a nice surprise for its employees, to help them get in the holiday spirit mood... |
19 December 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Google is not shy of hiding Easter Eggs in its search engine, though some are 'hidden' better than others. The latest one is not exactly meant to wow users doing an obscure search, rather it's meant to make people smile a bit if they're looking for something Christmas related.If you search for "Le... |
19 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Remember when having snow on your desktop was cool? Pixelated snowflakes falling from the top of the screen, settling on the My Computer shortcut or way below on the taskbar. Windows 98SE wasn't really that bad, now was it?
Well, WordPress.com is bringing back the nostalgia, of either your childhood Christmas o... |
2 December 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that prolonged, intense and heavy snowfall in Arctic regions can lead to the death of native plant species, but only indirectly. These conditions apparently foster the development of killer fungal strains, that can wipe out entire plant populations.Snowfall can bring about the exac... |
20 June 2011
05:56 GMT |
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A long-term project initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA) has finally demonstrated that it is possible to process satellite datasets in such a way that the properties of snow on the ground become apparent. Information obtained in this manner can then be included in climate models. One of the reasons why this r... |
23 March 2011
10:42 GMT |
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Decades ago, when the first climate models appeared, they showed that diminishing ice and snow covers would contribute to exacerbating the effects of global warming. A new study shows that this is happening at a much more intense level than originally calculated.Over the past 30 years or so, the amount of ice- and sn... |
20 January 2011
03:44 GMT |
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Over the past few weeks, the East Coast of the United States and neighboring states have been buried under several feet of snow, brought in by severe snowstorms. Now, experts are gearing up to establish why these weather events are so intense, and they already have a potential culprit in mind.According to i... |
12 January 2011
04:05 GMT |
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An University of California in Irvine (UCI) engineering professor and his team are at the forefront of precipitation analysis, with a series of new maps they are producing for the United States and countries around the world.Increasingly often, authorities from a variety of nations turn to UCI professor Soroosh Soroo... |
11 January 2011
03:48 GMT |
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A new research explains why global warming enhances the range of Southern Ocean sea ice even though western Antarctic glaciers have disintegrated.This paradox of snow falling over the Antarctic has been explained by a very pessimistic forecast that says it will not last for long as by the end of the century, constant... |
17 August 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, scientists at the American space agency NASA have been working on compiling the most comprehensive record of the onset and termination of Arctic “freeze dates” ever. This means that they kept track of the dates when melting at the North Pole ensued every year, and also of ... |
28 January 2010
18:11 GMT |
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When they were first discovered, snow rolls, or snow pipes as they are also called, were thought to be the work of aliens, pranksters or some undiscovered species of animals building a nest. But subsequent studies of the peculiar structures have revealed that they are all-natural, and also that they most often appear... |
11 January 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Sky competitions are among the most difficult to decide, mostly because most competitors have less than a second separating their individual times. The majority of those competing at the expert level have similar performances when it comes to negotiating corners, picking up speed on straight lines, and enhancing thei... |
11 January 2010
04:40 GMT |
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A new tracking system that holds great promise in saving future avalanche victims has just been developed in Germany. The method, which was created by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, will rely heavily on the future European satellite navigation system, Galileo. The team rep... |
2 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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At this point, there are only a handful of methods to clear a road that has been covered with snow. There is the old-fashioned way, which involves you going out there with a shovel. Or you could wait for the snow plough or the salt truck. If you live in specific countries, your government may have already installed h... |
2 December 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Fifty-eight year-old civil engineer Dr. Ed Adams is among the first scientists in the world to boast working in a “cold” lab that creates the same conditions as those that can be found on top of a mountain to the last detail. The expert uses his equipment to better understand exactly how avalanches are fo... |
20 January 2009
09:23 GMT |
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While going through the large amount of pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE high resolution camera, a group of experts from the University of Berne, Switzerland, led by Patrick Russell have come across a series of photos showing a phenomenon strikingly resembling one happening on Earth. By the no... |
10 November 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Following the resounding success of the Mars Phoenix Lander's mission, its three main project leaders were invited to New York's Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough conference in order to shed more light on the gathered data and on what future similar missions may expect to discover.The mission of NASA... |
17 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Reliable sources claim that Apple is preparing the first Snow Leopard pre-release builds to be seeded to developers. These copies are the first to be handed to a “limited” / select number of developers since the initial build issued at Apple's WWDC in June, this year.AppleInsider cites people familia... |
1 October 2008
03:29 GMT |
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By analyzing the red planet's clouds, Phoenix Mars Lander has found that there's snow falling from them. The data collected from the soil samples gathered by the craft showed that there is an obvious interaction between water in liquid form and minerals, just like on Earth.The laser device that is specially... |
30 September 2008
02:57 GMT |
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1. In the extreme north of the Fennoscandian peninsula, the Saami (Lapps), a shepherd population that still follows an ancestral way of life, live, despite the tough clime of their homeland. Most of the Lapps actually live over the Polar Circle, but these people developed a culture adapted to the subpolar climate, ba... |
18 February 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Waiting for Rudolph to bring you Santa Claus with the presents? Well, here is some data about this amazing Ice Age deer. 1.Reindeer are believed to have appeared during the last glaciation, 15,000 years ago. Their roots seem to be in South America. 5 million years ago, South America and North America got united throu... |
15 December 2007
06:50 GMT |
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The people over at the Mountain View based company are probably undecided whether to release the theme for iGoogle or just tease us with it. Brinke Guthrie found this morning that he was able to see a new holiday theme, but since that moment he has found it to be missing again. Sort of "now you see it, now you don�... |
12 December 2007
15:41 GMT |
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We are more used to see beasts like horse, donkey, mule, cattle, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, or elephant being used as working animals. At least in the documentaries. But in the 19th century Europe, dog traction was a popular mini-version of horse traction. Usually, dogs were harnessed to a two wheel (rarely four wh... |
10 December 2007
08:54 GMT |
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way/ Oh, what fun it is to have a Spring iGoogle Theme, instead of a winter one this time of year! Um, yes, it might not rhyme, but it's a lot closer to the way my Google holiday mood is getting at. Annoyance at its finest hour. Why, why would you consider launching a w... |
10 December 2007
04:49 GMT |
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When you hear about hibernation, you instantly think about the northern snowed plains and marmots, ground squirrels and hedgehogs. But in the generally snowless Australia, its highest mountains are the 'home' of the only hibernating marsupials. The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) was first discovere... |
30 October 2007
06:16 GMT |
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It lacks only hair. As for the rest, it looks like it died yesterday. The recent finding in May 2007 of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost offers the best chance so far to build a genetic map of the Ice Age extinct species."It's a lovely little baby mammoth indeed, found in perfect condition," sa... |
12 July 2007
04:27 GMT |
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This year it snowed orange in Siberia. But contamination can give many colors to snow, which is anything but white in many places. Now a team at UC Irvine has signaled that dirty snow can be responsible for over 35 % of the Arctic meltdown, besides global warming induced by greenhouse gases.Snow gets dirty due to so... |
8 June 2007
06:27 GMT |
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In small amounts, ice is just a solid, brittle, crystalline material; but when an ice layer surpasses 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displaces on a slope. For a glacier to appear, the snowfall fr... |
30 May 2007
08:40 GMT |
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At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the co... |
5 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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