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Lightning's 'NOx-ious' Impact On Pollution, Climate
More than 1.2 billion
lightning flashes occur
around the world every year.
Each of those billion
lightning flashes produces a
puff of nitrogen oxide gas
... > full story
Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
Is there such a thing as
"weather" on Mars? There are
some doubts, considering the
planet's atmosphere is only
1 percent as dense as that
of the Earth. Mars, however,
definitely has clouds,
... > full story
Navy Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
Launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., aboard
an United Launch Alliance
Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct.
18, 2009, the Special Sensor
Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSU ... > full story
Global Warming Cycles Threaten Endangered Primate Species
One of the first-ever
analyses of the effects of
global warming on endangered
primates has examined how El
Niño warming has
affected the abundance of
... > full story
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Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare
November 6, 2009 — The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September of 2009 was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have reviewed the numbers and ... > full story -
Calm Before The Spawn: Climate Change And Coral Spawning
November 4, 2009 — Biologists have explained why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months. A new study shows that corals spawn when regional wind ... > full story -
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Climate Change Could Create Agricultural Winners And Losers In East Africa, New Study Warns
November 3, 2009 — As African leaders prepare to present an ambitious proposal to industrialized countries for coping with climate change in the part of the world that is most vulnerable to its impacts, a new study ... > full story -
Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity Satellite Ready For Launch
October 29, 2009 — A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday November 2 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean ... > full story -
Weather Patterns Help Predict Dengue Fever Outbreaks
October 27, 2009 — High temperatures, humidity and low wind speed are associated with high occurrence of dengue fever according to a new ... > full story -
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Among Healthiest Coral Reefs In Gulf Of Mexico
October 26, 2009 — Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary is among the healthiest coral reef ecosystems in the tropical Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to NOAA researchers. Their report offers insights ... > full story -
Gene Developed Through Conventional Breeding To Improve Cowpea Aphid Resistance
October 26, 2009 — The cowpea or black-eyed pea, as it is more commonly known, is a New Year's tradition for good luck. But disease and particularly aphids, which can wreck a crop within a few a days, are especially ... > full story -
Urban Growth Versus Global Warming
October 22, 2009 — Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming. A new study ... > full story -
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Researchers Can Predict Hurricane-related Power Outages
October 21, 2009 — Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers have found a way to accurately predict power outages in advance of a ... > full story -
Seismic Noise Unearths Lost Hurricanes
October 20, 2009 — Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic -- by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap ... > full story
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