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Insurance Industry Paying Increasing Attention to Climate Change
December 13, 2012 — The insurance industry, the world's largest business with $4.6 trillion in revenues, is making larger efforts to manage climate change-related risks, according to a new ... > full story -
Disaster Map Predicts Bleak Future for Mammals
December 13, 2012 — Mammals could be at a greater risk of extinction due to predicted increases in extreme weather conditions, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate Modelers Predict Warmer, Wetter Northeast U.S. Winters by 2070
December 12, 2012 — A new high-resolution climate study, the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across the Northeast United States, suggests ... > full story -
New Forecast System Helps Transoceanic Flights Avoid Storms
December 11, 2012 — A new NASA-funded prototype system developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) of Boulder, Colo., now is providing weather forecasts that can help flights avoid major storms as ... > full story -
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Wind and Solar Power Paired With Storage Could Power Grid 99.9 Percent of the Time
December 10, 2012 — Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, according to new research. A well-designed combination ... > full story -
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What It Is to Be a Queen Bee?
December 10, 2012 — Queen sweat bees ‘choose’ the role of their daughters, according to a new study. The amount of food provided for the developing larvae determines whether the daughter becomes a worker or ... > full story -
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 -
Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes
December 6, 2012 — To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews, blows around, and changes composition in response ... > full story -
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 -
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
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