Earth Sciences

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Arctic Ocean More Vulnerable to Human-Induced Changes Than Antarctic Ocean

After comparing sites in both oceans, they found the Arctic site to be more acidic, warmer during the summer months, and have fewer nutrients; those…

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Exploring Carbon’s Unique Traits Under High Pressure

High pressures and temperatures cause materials to exhibit unusual properties, some of which can be special. Understanding such new properties is important for…

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Infrared NASA image revealed fading Gil's warming cloud tops

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument captured an infrared picture of Tropical Storm Gil on Aug. 6 at 22:59 UTC (6:59 p.m. EDT). The AIRS data…

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NASA Satellite Tracks Tropical Storm Mangkhut’s Landfall

On Aug. 6 at 20:55 UTC (4:55 p.m. EDT) NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Mangkhut as it tracked west-northwest through the Gulf of Tonkin on its way to a…

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NASA Discovers 10-Mile-High Thunderstorms in Hurricane Henriette

The higher the thunderstorms are, the more powerful the uplift in the air, and more powerful the thunderstorms. Thunderstorms that reach 10 miles high, like…

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Ozone Hole’s Subtle Warming Influence Revealed in Study

Now a new computer-modeling study suggests that the ozone hole might actually have a slight warming influence, but because of its effect on winds, not…

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Global Climate Trend Since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C Per Decade – July temperatures

Global composite temp.: +0.17 C (about 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.Northern Hemisphere: +0.13 C (about 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit)…

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NASA Monitors Two Tropical Cyclones in Eastern Pacific

Tropical Depression Gil is more than halfway to Hawaii from Mexico and continues to hold onto depression strength. Meanwhile, NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured…

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New Insights on Mercury Cleanup Challenges From ORNL Research

Earlier this year, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered two key genes that are essential for microbes to convert…

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Big ice may explain Mars’ double-layer craters

Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars.Double-layered ejecta…

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Understanding Public-Supply Wells’ Vulnerability to Contamination

About one-third of the U.S. population gets their drinking water from public-supply wells.”Improving the understanding of the vulnerability of public-supply…

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Montreal Protocol: Ozone Treaty’s Climate Gains Revealed

The 1987 Montreal Protocol phased out the use of chloroflourocarbons, or CFCs, a class of chemicals that destroy ozone in the stratosphere, allowing more…

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Global Investigation Uncovers Scale of Ocean Warming

The three-year research project, funded by the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in California, has shown widespread systemic shifts in…

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Active Tropical Systems in Eastern Pacific: NASA’s Observation

NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured a very active Eastern Pacific ocean on Aug. 2 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) with one hurricane and two developing tropical low…

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UCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change’s effect on soil

Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming’s effect on soil…

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Satellite Captures Rapid Dissipation of Tropical Depression Flossie

NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center issued the final advisory on the remnants of Tropical Depression Flossie on July 30 at 1500 UTC/11 a.m. EDT. At that…

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