By examining a set of fossil corals that are as much as 7,000 years old, scientists have dramatically expanded the amount of information available on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, a Pacific Ocean climate ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 03, 2013 4.2 / 5 (9) 3 |

Sea-levels are rising 60 per cent faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) central projections, new research suggests.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 28, 2012 4.1 / 5 (18) 10 |

Researchers from the ACE CRC and the Australian Antarctic Division have found evidence from ice cores of a long term decline in average annual rainfall in eastern Australia, with records revealing that rainfall ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 31, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 0

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The climate of the Pacific region will undergo significant changes as atmospheric temperatures rise but scientists can not yet identify the influence it will have on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 24, 2010 3.1 / 5 (11) 1 |

The 30-year record low in Antarctic snowmelt that occurred during the 2008-09 austral summer was likely due to concurrent strong positive phases for two main climate drivers, ENSO (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and SAM ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 03, 2009 3.5 / 5 (2) 0