The study found cooler sea temperatures, greater precipitation and stronger upwelling — all indicators of La Niña-like conditions at the study site in Panama —…
Californians have been flaunting their flip-flops and tee shirt weather at friends and relatives on the frigid East Coast. The contrast is extreme,…
On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite…
Tropical Cyclone Marcia made landfall along Queensland coast between Yeppoon and St. Lawrence around 2200 UTC on Feb. 19 (5 p.m. EST U.S./Feb. 20 at 8 a.m….
The TRMM satellite is managed by both NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The TRMM Precipitation Radar gives three-dimensional information about…
Tropical Cyclone Lam made landfall as a Category Four storm, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM). It came ashore near Elcho and Goulburn…
In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, co-author on an NAU assistant professor Nicholas McKay analyzes core samples from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana. The…
Thunderstorms, wind, fog, extreme rainfall – all these weather events develop in the near-surface layer of air in the earth's atmosphere. Quantifying the…
Once the lightest fractions of the oil had been consumed, the organisms that had been digesting those compounds declined, replaced by others able to chew up…
In the three millennia before Christ, a high culture existed in the Near East which left a wealth of information about itself: on clay tablets written in…
In the new study, published today in Nature Geoscience, the scientists also report the atmospheric abundance of one of these 'very short-lived substances'…
Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they play in the Earth's interior? How do they react to conditions in the…
Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first…
Scientists today released evidence of historically unprecedented hurricane activity along the northeast coast of what would become the United States between…
An international team of scientists, including Minghua Zhang, Dean and Director of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS),…
Published Feb. 9 in the journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the study found that participants — members of large,…
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