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New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
A new study suggests that
the form of El Nino may be
changing potentially causing
not only a greater number of
hurricanes than in average
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Small Heat-Shielded Habitats Could Help Threatened Species Survive Climate Change
Intelligent countryside
management could improve the
survival chances of animal
and plant species threatened
by climate change. The
... > full story
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
"June is busting out all
over," as the song says, and
with it, U.S. residents
along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts begin to gaze warily
toward the ocean, aware that
... > full story
Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
New research, which
reconstructs the extent of
ice in the sea between
Greenland and Svalbard from
the 13th century to the
present indicates that there
... > full story
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Hurricane Katrina: Why Some People Stayed Behind
July 3, 2009 — Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in US history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm ... > full story -
Pacific Northwest Forests Could Store More Carbon, Help Address Greenhouse Issues
July 3, 2009 — The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed ... > full story -
Faults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space
July 3, 2009 — China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation ... > full story -
Magmatic Plumbing Of A Large Permian Caldera Exposed To A Depth Of 25 Kilometers
July 2, 2009 — Large volcanic calderas, aka supervolcanoes, are enormous craters tens of kilometers in diameter produced by giant, explosive eruptions that rank among the most violent geologic events. Geophysical ... > full story -
Environmental Cues Control Reproductive Timing And Longevity
July 2, 2009 — When humans and animals delay reproduction because food or other resources are scarce, they may live longer to increase the impact of reproduction, according to a new ... > full story -
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Microalgae As A Source Of Alternative Energy
July 2, 2009 — Scientists are researching the potential of mass production of microalgae as a ... > full story -
Did Melting Snow Shape America's Southern Rocky Mountains?
July 2, 2009 — Is it possible that something as insubstantial and transitory as snow could be responsible for large scale vertical movements of Earth's surface and the excavation of deeply incised ... > full story -
New Kind Of Undersea Eruption Defined: 'Neptunian'
July 2, 2009 — Two Australian researchers have defined a newly recognized kind of explosive eruption, termed "neptunian," that is restricted to seafloor ... > full story -
Biogenic Origin For Earth's Oldest Putative Microfossils
July 2, 2009 — Microbes and bacteria were the first living organisms on Earth, and they can be preserved in Archean silica-rich rocks. One such outcrop from western Australia, dated to 3.5 billion years ago, may ... > full story -
Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
July 2, 2009 — When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models ... > full story
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