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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Antarctic Fungus Survives in Mars-like Conditions
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After living for 18 months in a Mars-like environment outside the International Space Station, some Antarctic fungi were still living and dividing when examined by researchers back on Earth.
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Climate change: Ocean warming underestimated
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To date, research on the effects of climate change has underestimated the contribution of seawater expansion to sea level rise due to warming of the oceans. A team of researchers has now investigated, using satellite data, that th
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Global warming to blame for most heat extremes - study
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Global warming is to blame for most extreme hot days and almost a fifth of heavy downpours, according to a scientific study on Monday that gives new evidence of how rising man-made greenhouse gases are skewing the weather.
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New Window to Change Color with Weather
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eather could power the next generation of smart windows. Researchers have created glass that tints by harvesting energy from wind and precipitation. The approach offers an alternative to other smart windows powered by batteries, s
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Can Humans Survive Climate Change?
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Although most of us worry about other things, climate scientists have become increasingly worried about the survival of civilization. For example, Lonnie Thompson, who received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 2010, said that
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How the wind farms of the future could be underwater
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The United Kingdom may seem an unlikely candidate to lead a renewable energy revolution; it doesn't have much sun for solar power, it doesn't have much space for wind power and it doesn't have giant coursing rivers for hydro.
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2014 set to be world's hottest year ever
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The world is on course for the hottest year ever in 2014, the United Nations weather agency said on Wednesday, heightening the sense of urgency around climate change negotiations underway in Lima. Preliminary estimates from the Wo
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Buffalo Digs Out
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Warmer temperatures arrived in Western New York this week, raising flooding concerns after the Buffalo area saw up to 7 feet of snow. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that some residents should prepare to evacuate: "Flood
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Lake Effect Snow Buries Buffalo, NY
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Up to 60 inches of snow fell on Buffalo, N.Y., this week, in part due to a weather event called lake effect snow. It's a highly localized snowfall, which appears when cold air masses move over warmer lake waters. Snow may exceed 5
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How a Bomb Cyclone Turns Into a Polar Bomb
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It’s bad enough that a huge swath of the central and eastern United States is going to be slammed with a premature blast of cold weather this week. But to make matters worse, that means getting our heads around more confusing me
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What Will Winter Hold for Drought-Plagued California
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The state is now at the beginning of the fourth year of one if its worst droughts on record. The drought has been fueled by a spate of disappointing winter rainy seasons that have left meager snowpacks and diminished reservoir lev
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Angry, Rolling Cloud Is First New Type in 60 Years
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Undulatus asperatus isn’t some obscure anatomical structure next to your peritoneum, nor is it a minor character from the movie "Gladiator."
No, it’s actually a type of cloud formation that weather fanciers have proposed fo
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'Bolt from the Blue' Caught on Camera
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Lighting can strike the ground miles away from the towering thunderstorms that produce it, a phenomenon called a "bolt from the blue."
A high-speed camera run by the University of Florida's Lightning Research Laboratory caught
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Report: telltale signs that ozone layer is recovering
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Nearly 30 years after the protections of the Montreal Protocol were put into place, there’s more evidence that the international agreement to protect Earth’s ozone layer is working, according to a new scientific report release
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Ozone Problem on Course for Fix By Mid-Century
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Paris (AFP) - In some rare good news for the environment, the UN on Wednesday said Earth's damaged ozone layer was "well on track" for recovery by mid-century, although fixing it over Antarctica would take longer.
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Hot and Cold: Crocodile Evolution Based on Ocean Temps
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Ancient crocodiles colonized the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new study, demonstrating a link between crocodile evolution and ocean temperature.
For more than 140 million years,
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Global warming is moistening the atmosphere
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We have long suspected that greenhouse gases which cause the Earth to warm would lead to a wetter atmosphere. The latest research published by Eul-Seok Chung, Brian Soden, and colleagues provides new insight into what was thought
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Iowa's Corn Farmers Learn To Adapt To Weather Extremes
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Climate change is creating all kinds of challenges and opportunities for business. One of the sectors that feels the effects most immediately is agriculture. Already, weather patterns are making it more challenging to raise corn
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Extreme weather becoming more common, study says
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Extreme weather like the drought currently scorching the western US and the devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010 is becoming much more common, according to new scientific research.
The work shows so-called “blocking pattern
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Brace yourself for another polar vortex — in September
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It’s already August, which means fall is around the corner – and another winter no longer seems that far away. Forecasters are out with some predictions about the weather we can expect in the coming months:
A polar vortex
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Hurricane Iselle to hit Hawaii on Thursday
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Hawaiians are bracing for a rare direct tropical cyclone hit as Hurricane Iselle threatens the US island chain.
Hurricane Iselle is 350 miles (535km) east of Hilo and is expected to make landfall on Thursday afternoon.
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Meltwater from Tibetan glaciers floods pastures
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Glaciers are important indicators of climate change. Global warming causes mountain glaciers to melt, which, apart from the shrinking of the Greenlandic and Antarctic ice sheets, is regarded as one of the main causes of the presen
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Green Lightning Revealed in Volcanic Eruption
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Green lightning is real, but it's only been documented in this one case from a volcanic eruption in Chile. One scientists tries to explain why the flash goes Irish.
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Arctic Summer Cyclones Churn Up Sea Ice
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At the top of the world, intense summer cyclones have been raging in recent years, eating up sea ice and helping push the North Pole closer to ice-free summers.
In fact, a week-long cyclone just concluded, which Matthew Asplin,
Discovery News - Earth News
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'Brown Ocean' Can Fuel Inland Tropical Cyclones
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In the summer of 2007, Tropical Storm Erin stumped meteorologists. Most tropical cyclones dissipate after making landfall, weakened by everything from friction and wind shear to loss of the ocean as a source of heat energy. Not Er
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Rocks Can Restore Our Climate ... After 300,000 Years
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A study of a global warming event that happened 93 million years ago suggests that the Earth can recover from high carbon dioxide emissions faster than thought, but that this process takes around 300,000 years after emissions decl
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Causes of Global Warming
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Scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming. They've looked at the natural cycles and events that are known to influence climate. But the amount and pattern of warming that's been measured can't be ex
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