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Tag: Climate Change
Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’
A Princeton-led research team has created an unprecedented record of ocean nitrogen and oxygen levels from 70 million years ago ...
US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years
Credit: University of Central Florida New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida ...
Ready for refit: Navy-owned research vessel getting suped-up for service
Credit: Photo by Scripps Institution of Oceanography ARLINGTON, Va.--Like a classic car being restored, the research vessel (R/V) Roger Revelle ...
NASA’s Aqua satellite tracks Tropical Cyclone Lorna
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL As Tropical Storm Lorna continued moving in a southerly direction in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, NASA's Aqua ...
NASA sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Kenneth over northern Mozambique
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of ...
City trees can offset neighborhood heat islands, Concordia researcher says
A new study shows that enough canopy cover can dramatically reduce urban temperaturesCredit: Courtesy Carly Ziter The idea of the ...
Red-neck phalarope: a migratory divide towards the Pacific Ocean and the Arabian Sea
An exceptional strategy when winter comesCredit: Yann Kolbeinsson When winter comes, populations of red-neck phalarope from the Western Palearctic migrate ...
Ocean acidification ‘could have consequences for millions’
Credit: Ben Harvey Ocean acidification could have serious consequences for the millions of people globally whose lives depend on coastal ...
Preventing collapse after catastrophe
As the impacts of climate change escalate, ecosystems will likely undergo events that will disrupt entire populations. In marine ecosystems, ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth make landfall in northern Mozambique
Credit: NASA/NOAA/ University of Wisconsin - Madison, SSES-CIMSS, William Straka III Mozambique is still recovering from deadly Tropical Cyclone Idai, ...
NASA finds a more circular Tropical Cyclone Lorna
Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured a visible image of what appeared ...
33-year study shows increasing ocean winds and wave heights
Credit: Professor Ian Young Extreme ocean winds and wave heights are increasing around the globe, with the largest rise occurring ...
Integrated approaches to natural resource management key to Canada’s continued prosperity
The expert panel on the state of knowledge and practice of integrated approaches to natural resource management in CanadaCredit: Council ...
Study reveals massive ecological and economic impacts of woody weed invasion in Ethiopia
CABI scientists have revealed the massive ecological and economic impacts that the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora has had across ...
Researchers trace 3,000 years of monsoons through shell fossils
Credit: Katsura Yamada, Shinshu University, Japan The tiny shells at the bottom of Lake Nakaumi in southwest Japan may contain ...
Place-based management can protect coral reefs in a changing climate
Credit: Kostantinos Stamoulis Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the State of Hawai'i Department of ...
Using DNA templates to harness the sun’s energy
Credit: Neal Woodbury and Hao Yan As the world struggles to meet the increasing demand for energy, coupled with the ...
Early melting of winter snowfall advances the Arctic springtime
Credit: Sandra Angers-Blondin The early arrival of spring in parts of the Arctic is driven by winter snow melting sooner ...
Holy Pleistocene Batman, the answer’s in the cave
Let's say you wanted to solve a 20,000-year-old mystery, where would you start? Let's say you wanted to solve a ...
