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Humans stoked Australia’s unprecedented ‘angry summer’ heat, study finds

“Our research has shown that, due to greenhouse gas emissions, these types of extreme summers will become even more frequent and more severe in the future,”…

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Clearing Up Confusion on Future of Colorado River Flows

In the past five years, scientific studies estimated declines of future flows ranging from 6 percent to 45 percent by 2050. A paper by University of Washington…

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Migrating animals add new depth to how the ocean “breathes”

Research begun at Princeton University and recently reported on in the journal Nature Geoscience found that animals ranging from plankton to small fish consume…

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Gigantic Storm on Saturn: Cassini Images Unveil Secrets

Through the analysis of images sent from the Cassini space probe belonging to the North American and European space agencies (NASA and ESA respectively), as…

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Wildfire Smoke Spreads Over Alaska’s Norton Sound Region

The smoke was moving west over Norton Sound. (The center of the image is roughly 163° West and 62° North.) Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected…

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Rare Fossil Reveals 250 Million-Year-Old Burrowing Pair

Synchrotron imaging reveals odd couple – 250 million years ago, a mammal forerunner and an amphibian shared a burrow.Scientists from South Africa, Australia…

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The Sands of Time: What 30,000 Years of Sediment Can Teach US About the Changing Ocean

A team of international scientists known as the NICOPP (Nitrogen Cycle in the Ocean, Past and Present) working group, led by Dalhousie oceanographer Markus…

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Tandem-Horned Rhino Sheds Light on Unicorn Elasmothere Origin

All other elasmotheres had a weak or strong nasal horn, whereas Elasmotherium lost its ancestral nasal horn and instead developed a long frontal horn. Dr. DENG…

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How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere?

However, in February of this year, a team of scientists reported in the journal Science the surprising discovery of a previously unknown third radiation ring….

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Impact of Global Warming on Indian Monsoon Rainfall Variability

The Indian monsoon is a complex system which is likely to change under global warming. While it is in the very nature of weather to vary, the question is how…

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BIOMASS, a Satellite to Monitor World’s Forests, Set for 2020 Launch

Hank Shugart, W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, served on the scientific advisory…

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Record-Setting Dead Zone Expected in Gulf of Mexico

Scientists are expecting a very large “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico and a smaller than average hypoxic level in the Chesapeake Bay this year, based on…

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Seismic Gap Discovered Near Istanbul’s North Anatolian Fault

Earthquake researchers have now identified a 30 kilometers long and ten kilometers deep area along the North Anatolian fault zone just south of Istanbul that…

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New Tropical Depression Forms in Atlantic, NOAA Monitors Weather

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite sits in a fixed orbit and monitors the weather in the eastern half of the continental United States and the Atlantic Ocean. NASA's…

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NASA Satellite Detects Tropical Depression Near Philippines

On June 16 at 2200 UTC (6 p.m. EDT) System 91W was located near 13.5N and 126.9E, about 355 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite…

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Global Cooling: A Crucial Counterpoint to Climate Change

The international study involving experts from the universities of Newcastle, UK, Cologne, Frankfurt and GEOMAR-Kiel, confirms the link between global cooling…

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