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NOAA Study Finds Fishing Tops U.S. Lightning Death Activities
June 24, 2013 — NOAA's National Weather Service has discovered that 64 percent of lightning deaths since 2006 occurred while people were participating in leisure activities, with fishing topping the list at 26 ... > full story -
Vegetation on Earth: Stunning Satellite Imagery Depicting Vegetation Around the World
June 24, 2013 — Although 75 percent of the planet is an ocean of blue, the remaining 25 percent of Earth's surface is a dynamic green. Data from the Visible-Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on ... > full story -
Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS
June 24, 2013 — Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and ... > full story -
Sun Emits a Solstice CME
June 22, 2013 — On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth ... > full story -
Ups-and-Downs of Indian Monsoon Rainfall Likely to Increase Under Warming
June 20, 2013 — Day-to-day rainfall in India might become much more variable due to climate change -- potentially putting millions of poor farmers and the country's agricultural productivity at ... > full story -
Possible Record-Setting Deadzone for Gulf of Mexico Predicted
June 18, 2013 — Scientists are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic "dead" zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded. A second forecast, for ... > full story -
Jet Stream Changes Cause Climatically Exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
June 17, 2013 — Scientists have shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet in summer ... > full story -
Flowering at the Right Age: Alpine Rock Cress Uses a Ribonucleic Acid to Measure Its Age and Tell When It's the Right Time to Flower
June 10, 2013 — Perennial plants flower only when they have reached a certain age and been subjected to the cold. These two circumstances prevent the plant from starting to flower during winter. Botanists have now ... > full story -
British Butterfly Desperate for Warm Weather This Summer
June 10, 2013 — Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, and new research has revealed that when summer weather turns bad the silver-spotted skipper battles for ... > full story -
Amazon Forest Fire Risk to Increase in 2013
June 7, 2013 — University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere. The outlook is ... > full story
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