When tides are at their highest a few days after a full or new moon, thousands of small silver fish called grunion flop onto Southern California beaches. Females wriggle their tails into the sand, males spray the females ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2020
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A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach Connecticut and New York City, where it caused significant ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2020
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Satellite data has given scientists clues about how, when and why Greenland's glaciers are shrinking—and shows a sharp increase in glacial retreat beginning about 2000, according to new research presented this week.
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2019
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On Mt. Etna volcano, inhabited areas have been inundated repeatedly by lava flows in historical times. The increasing exposure of a larger population, which has almost tripled in the area around Mt. Etna during the last 150 ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2019
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The size of a bulge at the top of a thunderstorm's anvil-shaped cloud may allow researchers to forecast the strength of tornadoes that spawn from such storms, according to a new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2019
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A pair of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has used satellite observations as a way to measure the lifetime of nitrogen oxide (NOx) levels above multiple North American cities. In their paper published ...
Satellite images, drone photos and even Google Earth could help identify communities most at risk for getting one of the world's worst tropical diseases.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2019
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In a peer-reviewed report released today, researchers have identified more than 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests—restoration hotspots—spread out across Central and South America, Africa and Southeast ...
Environment
Jul 3, 2019
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Every spring, tens of thousands of elk follow a wave of green growth up onto the high plateaus in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, where they spend the summer calving and fattening on fresh grass. And ...
Ecology
Jun 14, 2019
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A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) clarifies what influence major currents in the North Atlantic have on sea level along the northeastern United States. The study, published June 13 in the journal ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2019
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