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80 Essential Questions About Antarctica’s Southern Tip

A forward-looking article by 75 leading Antarctic researchers and science managers from 22 countries appeared online in the scientific journal Nature on 6…

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Devil's Elbow Complex in Washington State

Three fires are in the San Poil River Valley, approximately 10-12 miles north of the town of Keller, WA. These are the Cub Creek Fire (165), the Central Peak…

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Tropical Storm Genevieve Weakens West-Northwest of Midway

The storm is located approximately 819 nautical miles west-northwest of Midway Island.

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Julio’s Path: Tracking the Latest Trends in Hurricane Activity

Julio's position at this point is 395 miles northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii moving northwest at 8 knots per hour. 

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NASA Confirms End of Tropical Depression Genevieve

Genevieve moved through all three Pacific Ocean regions (eastern, central and western) in its two week lifetime and met its end today.

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Chilean Earthquake Triggers Icequakes in Antarctica

Seismic events aren't rare occurrences on Antarctica, where sections of the frozen desert can experience hundreds of micro-earthquakes an hour due to ice…

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Megascale Icebergs Found Grounded Between Greenland and Spitsbergen

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found between Greenland and Spitsbergen the scours left…

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Oxygen Levels Rise in Baltic Sea’s Deep Waters After Depletion

After a long period of oxygen depletion and hydrogen sulfide formation in the deep water of the Central Baltic Sea (since 2003), saltwater being rich in oxygen…

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Northwest Territories Fire: Smoke Spreads Over Labrador Sea

In this natural-color satellite image which was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on July 29,…

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Heavy Rainfall from Hurricane Iselle Approaches Hawaii

A tropical storm warning has been issued for Kauai County. NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center provided an overview of the storm: Iselle is expected to…

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NASA’s Suomi NPP Captures Super-Typhoon Genevieve

When Suomi NPP flew over Genevieve on August 7 at 01:48 UTC the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard captured an infrared image…

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NASA Satellites Capture Gamma-Ray Flash from Hurricane Julio

NASA's Fermi and Aqua satellites captured two different views of bursts of strength show by Hurricane Julio as it intensified. NASA's Fermi satellite saw a…

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Global Climate Trend: +0.14°C Per Decade Since 1978

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade

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Tornado Strength and Frequency Linked to Climate Change

Published Wednesday in the journal Climate Dynamics, Professor James Elsner writes that though tornadoes are forming fewer days per year, they are forming at a…

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Angiosperm Plants and Mammal Dung: Fueling Beetle Evolution

Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Dr. Julia Schwarzer and their colleague Prof. Alfried Vogler reconstructed a phylogeny of scarab beetles, which include stag beetles, dung…

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Sea-Level Spikes: A Growing Threat to Coastal Communities

The new research suggests that these sea-level anomalies could be more of a threat to coastal homes and businesses than previously thought, and could become…

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