New research finds unprecedented weakening of Asian summer monsoon
Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing over the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 years, according to a new study.
Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing over the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 years, according to a new study.
Environment
May 15, 2019
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Measures to reduce air pollution could affect the severity of heatwaves in coming decades, a study suggests.
Environment
May 6, 2019
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When UC Santa Barbara geology professor emeritus James Kennett and colleagues set out years ago to examine signs of a major cosmic impact that occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch, little did they know just how ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2019
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The Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has discovered a stellar flare 10 billion times more powerful than the Sun's solar flares, a history-making discovery that could unlock decades-old questions about the ...
Astronomy
Feb 12, 2019
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Permafrost underlies nearly 85 percent of Alaska and nearly a quarter of the landmass in the northern hemisphere. This perennially frozen soil contains twice as much carbon as is found in the Earth's atmosphere. Since the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2019
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The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 had a significant impact on climate, decreasing global mean temperature by about 0.5°C. Like the famous eruptions of Krakatau (1883) and Tambora (1815), Pinatubo is located in the tropics, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2019
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The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is considered a key driver of winter weather patterns over the northern hemisphere. A positive NAO is linked with more windstorms, and mild and wet winters in Europe. A negative NAO indicates ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2019
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On Saturn, changing seasons can mean changes in the haziness—and color—of the skies.
Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2018
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Sea levels are rising globally from ocean warming and melting of land ice, but the seas aren't rising at the same rate everywhere. Sea levels have risen significantly faster in some U.S. East Coast regions compared to others. ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2018
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As the Antarctic ice sheet melts, warming of the atmosphere will be delayed by about a decade but sea level rise will accelerate, according to new research scheduled for advance online publication in the journal Nature.
Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2018
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