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  Drought in the Horn of Africa Delays Migrating Birds

  December 6, 2012 — The catastrophic drought last year in the Horn of Africa affected millions of people but also caused the extremely late arrival into northern Europe of several migratory songbird species, a new study ... > full story
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  How Cold Will a Winter Be in Two Years? Climate Models Still Struggle With Medium-Term Climate Forecasts

  December 6, 2012 — How well are the most important climate models able to predict the weather conditions for the coming year or even the next decade? Scientists have evaluated 23 climate models. Their conclusion: there ... > full story
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  NASA's TRMM Satellite Provides 3-D Analysis of Super-Typhoon Bopha

  December 6, 2012 — NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the eyewall of Super-typhoon Bopha in 3-D shortly before noon on Dec. 3, 2012 (Philippines local time). At that time, Bopha was at ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Arctic Continues to Break Records in 2012: Becoming Warmer, Greener Region With Record Losses of Summer Sea Ice and Late Spring Snow

  December 6, 2012 — The Arctic region continued to break records in 2012 -- among them the loss of summer sea ice, spring snow cover, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet. This was true even though air temperatures in ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Warm Sea Water Is Melting Antarctic Glaciers

  December 6, 2012 — The ice sheet in West Antarctica is melting faster than expected. New observations may improve our ability to predict future changes in ice sheet ... > full story
• Evolutionary Biology
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  Emergence of Flowering Plants: New Light Shed on Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery'

  December 6, 2012 — Research sheds new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil ... > full story
• Drought Research
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  Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought

  December 5, 2012 — In July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched crops wilt and die after a stretch of unusually low precipitation and high temperatures. Before a lack of rain and record-breaking ... > full story
• Earth Science
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  NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

  December 5, 2012 — Scientists have unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and NOAA satellite, shows the glow of ... > full story
• Wildfires
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  Invasive Grass Fuels Increased Fire Activity in the West

  December 5, 2012 — An invasive grass species may be one reason fires are bigger and more frequent in certain regions of the western United States, according to a team of ... > full story
• Intelligence
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  Many Maps of the Brain

  December 5, 2012 — Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new ... > full story

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