Atmospheric Science

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12-Mar-2025

Mosquito pain receptors are less sensitive during extreme heat

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective against mosquitoes, according to a new study. 

Journal

Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

12-Mar-2025

Delhi air pollution worse than expected as water vapour skews figures

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapour leading to particulate matter levels across the city being underestimated by up to 20%.

Journal

Clean Air

12-Mar-2025

Signs of ‘tipping point’ to electric vehicles in UK used car market

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Second-hand electric cars may be close to a “tipping point” where they become more popular than equivalent petrol and diesel cars in the UK, new research shows.

Journal

Earth System Dynamics

11-Mar-2025

AMS Science Preview: Data deserts, energy costs, malaria prediction

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research published in early online format in journals of the American Meteorological Society discusses topics including increasing energy costs due to climate change in Texas; increasing atmospheric rivers; malaria predication; and whether global warming could be reversed in certain parts of the world if greenhouse gas emissions go down.

11-Mar-2025

Study explores effects of climatic changes on Christmas Island’s iconic red crabs

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by scientists and graduates at the University of Plymouth has investigated one aspect of how the future environmental conditions created by the changing global climate might affect earliest development within Christmas Island’s red crab population

Journal

Journal of Experimental Biology

10-Mar-2025

Study: Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there. 

Journal

Nature Sustainability

Funder

U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force, U.K. Natural Environment Research Council

10-Mar-2025

Rising CO2 likely to speed decrease in ‘space sustainability’ 

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The total number of satellites that can orbit in space is likely to decrease as greenhouse gases cause Earth’s upper atmosphere to contract.

Journal

Nature Sustainability