Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Ohio’s Climate Change Forecast: Challenges Ahead for Residents

Scientists delivered a mostly negative forecast for how climate change will affect Ohioans during the next year or so, and well beyond.

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NASA Tracks Developing Tropical Cyclone in Bay of Bengal

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite passed over System 92B on May 19 and 20 and captured data on System 92B's rainfall rates and cloud…

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California’s Central Valley sees big drop in wintertime fog needed for fruit and nut crops

Crops such as almonds, pistachios, cherries, apricots and peaches go through a necessary winter dormant period brought on and maintained by colder…

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Air Conditioners Raise Nighttime Temperatures, Boost Demand

A team of researchers from Arizona State University has found that releasing excess heat from air conditioners running during the night resulted in higher…

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Fairy Circles: New Insights Challenge Termite Theory

For several decades scientists have been trying to come up with an explanation for the formation of the enigmatic, vegetation-free circles frequently found in…

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Antarctica's ice losses on the rise

A team of scientists from the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, led by researchers at the University of Leeds, have produced the first complete…

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Snow’s Impact on River Water Levels Explained

The study by PhD student Wouter Berghuijs and Dr Ross Woods, Senior Lecturer in Water and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at…

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Cutoff Switch Limits Oxygen Minimum Zones’ Spread and Duration

The findings are particularly important, scientists say, because as the climate warms oxygen minimum zones are expected to expand in coming decades and could…

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Greenland’s Melting Ice: New Insights on Sea Level Rise

Greenland's icy reaches are far more vulnerable to warm ocean waters from climate change than had been thought, according to new research by UC Irvine and NASA…

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Human Impact Could Elevate Sierra Nevada and San Andreas Fault

Like a detective story with twists and turns in the plot, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are unfolding a story about the rapid uplift of the…

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How Forest Emissions Impact Initial Cloud Formation Stages

Clouds play a critical role in Earth's climate. Clouds also are the largest source of uncertainty in present climate models, according to the latest report of…

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse: Research Reveals Early Signs

University of Washington researchers used detailed topography maps and computer modeling to show that the collapse appears to have already begun. The…

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Groundwater Depletion Lifts Sierra Nevada Mountains in California

Winter rains and summer groundwater pumping in California's Central Valley make the Sierra Nevada and Coast Mountain Ranges sink and rise by a few millimeters…

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Tropical cyclone 'maximum intensity' is shifting toward poles

Over the past 30 years, the location where tropical cyclones reach maximum intensity has been shifting toward the poles in both the northern and southern…

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West Antarctic Glaciers’ Decline: New Study Reveals Urgency

The study presents multiple lines of evidence, incorporating 40 years of observations that indicate the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica…

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Confirmed by Radar Surveys

National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers at the University of Washington have concluded that Antarctica's fast-moving Thwaites Glacier will likely…

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