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Venice to suffer fewer storm surges
Published: Friday, June 10, 2011 - 09:33 in Earth & Climate Venice – the City of Dreams – may have one less nightmare to deal with following a finding that the frequency of extreme storm surge events generated by Adriatic Sea tempests could f...
NASA catches system 92W become fifth NW Pacific tropical depression
Published: Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 15:37 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA JPL/Ed Olsen The low pressure system that has been bringing rainfall to the northwestern Philippines has strengthened into the fifth tropical d...
3 satellites see eruption of Puyehue-Cordón volcano from space
NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters 11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Park in the And...
Stanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers
Published: Monday, June 6, 2011 - 11:36 in Earth & Climate The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentra...
Building a better dam map
Published: Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 21:03 in Earth & Climate Humans have been building reservoirs and dams for thousands of years. Over the past few decades, their construction has spiked as our need to harness water – critical in flood control...
Climate played big role in Vikings’ disappearance from Greenland
Published: Monday, May 30, 2011 - 15:50 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) William D'Andrea, Brown University The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written ...
NASA sees a 14-mile-wide eye and powerful Super Typhoon Songda
Published: Friday, May 27, 2011 - 15:05 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen Typhoon Songda became a Super Typhoon in the evening on May 26, 2011 (Eastern Daylight Time) was it reached a Category 5 status on ...
NASA: Songda becomes a super typhoon
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 16:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce As predicted, Typhoon Songda intensified and was a super typhoon with wind speeds estimated at over 130 knots ( ~145 mph) when...
NASA’s infrared satellite imagery shows a stronger Typhoon Songda
Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 09:35 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Songda is now a typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as it continues tracking parallel to the eastern coast of Luzon, Phili...
2 Greenland glaciers lose enough ice to fill Lake Erie
Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:04 in Earth & Climate A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pre...
Landslides: How rainfall dried up Panama’s drinking water
Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 11:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Marcos Guerra, STRI Robert Stallard To understand the long-term effects of a prolonged tropical storm in the Panama Canal watershed, Robert Stallar...
Seaports need a plan for weathering climate change, Stanford researchers say
Published: Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:32 in Earth & Climate The majority of seaports around the world are unprepared for the potentially damaging impacts of climate change in the coming century, according to a new Stanford University study. In a s...
Methane levels 17 times higher in water wells near hydrofracking sites
Published: Monday, May 9, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyze...
Tree rings tell a 1,100-year history of El Niño
Published: Friday, May 6, 2011 - 09:05 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) International Pacific Research Center Image courtesy International Pacific Research Center Peter Craig, National Park Service. El Niño and its par...
Climate change analysis predicts increased fatalities from heat waves
Published: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 09:33 in Earth & Climate Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the...
Global warming won’t harm wind energy production, climate models predict
Published: Monday, May 2, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Pryor Steve Scott The production of wind energy in the U.S. over the next 30-50 years will be largely unaffected by upward changes in global tem...
Water currents of South Africa could stabilize climate in Europe
Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 09:06 in Earth & Climate One of the ocean currents which particularly interests oceanographers and climatologists is the Gulf Stream. This current, originating in the Gulf of Mexico, transports enormous amoun...
Conservation of coastal dunes is threatened by poorly designed infrastructure
Published: Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:03 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Muñoz Vallés et al. Although the dune ecosystem is unusual, fragile and is protected by the "habitats" directive of the network Natura 2000, ...
Melting ice on Arctic islands a major player in sea level rise
Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:37 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Alex Gardner Angus Duncan Angus Duncan Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise th...
Oxygenation at a depth of 120 meters can save the Baltic Sea
Published: Monday, April 18, 2011 - 13:33 in Earth & Climate Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication. By cond...
Sugarcane cools climate
Published: Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 12:32 in Earth & Climate Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline. About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissi...
NASA sees Australian newborn Tropical Storm Errol’s strongest T-storms off-shore
Published: Friday, April 15, 2011 - 12:07 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen The low pressure area formerly known as System 92S has strengthened overnight and developed into Tropical...
Data catches up with theory: Ocean front is energetic contributor to mixing
Published: Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 13:34 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing...
Invasive mussels causing massive ecological changes in Great Lakes
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 16:36 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Photo courtesy of Michigan Sea Grant. Photo by Mark Edlund. Photo by Mary Anne Evans. The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great L...
Study: Algae could replace 17 percent of US oil imports
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 12:40 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) PNNL, QuickBird satellite High oil prices and environmental and economic security concerns have triggered interest in using algae-derived oils as...
Electric Yellowstone
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 22:30 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) University of Utah. University of Utah. University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the ...
West Antarctic warming triggered by warmer sea surface in tropical Pacific
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 12:33 in Earth & Climate The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies have shown that an adjacent area, continental West Antarctica, has steadily warmed for a...
Number of days of rain in Iberian Peninsula has increased since 1903
Published: Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 09:38 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) SINC A research team, led by the University of Extremadura, has for the first time analysed the frequency of rainfall over the whole of the Iberian...
Climate change poses major risks for unprepared cities
Published: Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 09:38 in Earth & Climate Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves...
Research into batteries will give electric cars the same range as petrol cars
Published: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 09:09 in Earth & Climate Li-air batteries are a promising opportunity for electric cars. "If we succeed in developing this technology, we are facing the ultimate breakthrough for electric cars, because in pra...
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