There’s a hard truth about climate change: Meeting the Paris Accords—and limiting global warming to 1.5˚C or “well below” 2˚C—requires we stabilize emissions and then cut them nearly in half by the end of the decade. Unfortunately, we’re falling behind. And many climate solutions can’t be deployed quickly enough to help. But some can. We... Continue Reading →
Researchers from NASA monitor, using airborne observations, the levels of carbon monoxide and ozone in wildfire plumes (a) The distribution of ΔO3/ΔCO ratio along the longitude within the wildfire plume and (b) the estimated longitudinal CO plume age distribution based on the NAST-I measurements. Credit: The Authors doi 10.1117/1.JRS.16.034522 Wildfires, characterized by unplanned, uncontrolled, and... Continue Reading →