http://www.geographyreport.com/ Geography And Cartography News Sunday, December 21, 2014 01:13 MST en-us http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Cost_of_cloud_brightening_for_cooler_planet_revealed.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Cost_of_cloud_brightening_for_cooler_planet_revealed.asp Sunday, December 21, 2014 00:00 MST University of Manchester scientists have identified the most energy-efficient way to make clouds more reflective to the sun in a bid to combat climate change. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/NASAs_Fermi_Mission_brings_deeper_focus_to_thunderstorm_gamma-rays.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/NASAs_Fermi_Mission_brings_deeper_focus_to_thunderstorm_gamma-rays.asp Saturday, December 20, 2014 00:00 MST Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of events seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with data from ground-based radar and lightning detectors, scientists have completed the most detailed analysis to date of the types of thunderstorms involved. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Study_shows_no_lead_pollution_in_the_oil_sands_region_of_Alberta.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Study_shows_no_lead_pollution_in_the_oil_sands_region_of_Alberta.asp Friday, December 19, 2014 00:00 MST Recent research from the University of Alberta reveals that contrary to current scientific knowledge, there's no atmospheric lead pollution in the province's oil sands region. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Storing_hydrogen_underground_could_boost_transportation_energy_security.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Storing_hydrogen_underground_could_boost_transportation_energy_security.asp Thursday, December 18, 2014 00:00 MST Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Temperature_anomalies_are_warming_faster_than_Earths_average.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Temperature_anomalies_are_warming_faster_than_Earths_average.asp Tuesday, December 16, 2014 00:00 MST It's widely known that the Earth's average temperature has been rising. But research by an Indiana University geographer and colleagues finds that spatial patterns of extreme temperature anomalies -- readings well above or below the mean -- are warming even faster than the overall average. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Evidence_suggests_Californias_drought_is_the_worst_in_1200_years.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Evidence_suggests_Californias_drought_is_the_worst_in_1200_years.asp Monday, December 15, 2014 00:00 MST As California finally experiences the arrival of a rain-bearing Pineapple Express this week, two climate scientists from the University of Minnesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have shown that the drought of 2012-2014 has been the worst in 1,200 years. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/El_Ni�os_remote_control_on_hurricanes_in_the_Northeastern_Pacific.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/El_Ni�os_remote_control_on_hurricanes_in_the_Northeastern_Pacific.asp Sunday, December 14, 2014 00:00 MST El Ni�o peaks in winter and its surface ocean warming occurs mostly along the equator. However, months later, El Ni�o events affect the formation of intense hurricanes in the Northeastern Pacific basin -- not along the equator. Scientists from the University of Hawai'i and the National Taiwan University published a paper today in Nature that revealed what's behind 'remote control.' http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Looking_at_El_Ni�os_past_to_predict_its_future.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Looking_at_El_Ni�os_past_to_predict_its_future.asp Saturday, December 13, 2014 00:00 MST Scientists see a large amount of variability in the El Ni�o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) when looking back at climate records from thousands of years ago. Without a clear understanding of what caused past changes in ENSO variability, predicting the climate phenomenon's future is a difficult task. A new study shows how this climate system responds to various pressures, such as changes in carbon dioxide and ice cover, in one of the best models used to project future climate change. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Missing_ingredient_in_energy-efficient_buildings_People.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Missing_ingredient_in_energy-efficient_buildings_People.asp Saturday, December 06, 2014 00:00 MST More than one-third of new commercial building space includes energy-saving features, but without training or an operator's manual many occupants are in the dark about how to use them. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Modeling_the_past_to_understand_the_future_of_a_stronger_El_Nino.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Modeling_the_past_to_understand_the_future_of_a_stronger_El_Nino.asp Friday, December 05, 2014 00:00 MST El Nino is not a contemporary phenomenon; it's long been the Earth's dominant source of year-to-year climate fluctuation. But as the climate warms and the feedbacks that drive the cycle change, researchers want to know how El Nino will respond. A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin's Zhengyu Liu published the latest findings in this quest Nov. 27, 2014 in Nature. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Engineers_invent_high-tech_mirror_to_beam_heat_away_from_buildings_into_space.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Engineers_invent_high-tech_mirror_to_beam_heat_away_from_buildings_into_space.asp Thursday, December 04, 2014 00:00 MST Stanford engineers have invented a material designed to help cool buildings. The material reflects incoming sunlight, and it sends heat from inside the structure directly into space as infrared radiation. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/El_Ni�o_stunts_childrens_growth_in_Peru.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/El_Ni�o_stunts_childrens_growth_in_Peru.asp Monday, December 01, 2014 00:00 MST Extreme weather events, such as El Ni�o, can have long-lasting effects on health, according to research published in the open access journal Climate Change Responses. The study, in coastal Peru, shows that children born during and after the 1997-98 El Ni�o have a lower height-for-age than others born before the event. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Developing_online_cybersecurity_training_for_communities.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Developing_online_cybersecurity_training_for_communities.asp Sunday, November 30, 2014 00:00 MST The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio has received $300,000 from FEMA to develop online training for community emergency managers.The training will be especially relevant to small communities, which often do not have the financial resources to properly address emergency planning and response to cyber attacks. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Underwater_robot_sheds_new_light_on_Antarctic_sea_ice.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Underwater_robot_sheds_new_light_on_Antarctic_sea_ice.asp Saturday, November 29, 2014 00:00 MST The first detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice have been developed using an underwater robot. Scientists from the UK, USA and Australia say the new technology provides accurate ice thickness measurements from areas that were previously too difficult to access. http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Permafrost_soil_Possible_source_of_abrupt_rise_in_greenhouse_gases_at_end_of_last_Ice_Age.asp http://www.geographyreport.com/research/Permafrost_soil_Possible_source_of_abrupt_rise_in_greenhouse_gases_at_end_of_last_Ice_Age.asp Friday, November 28, 2014 00:00 MST Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have identified a possible source of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that were abruptly released to the atmosphere in large quantities around 14,600 years ago.