News tagged with subtropics
Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Savannas, forests in a battle of the biomes, researchers find
Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by Princeton University researchers to stabilize the two. Without this ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Killer whales migrate, study finds, but why?
Some killer whales, a study published Wednesday shows for the first time, wander nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) from Antarctica's Southern Ocean into tropical waters -- but not to feed or breed.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
(PhysOrg.com) -- Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A hard rain's gonna fall: Analysis shows climate change to yield more extreme rainfall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Population pressure impacts world wetlands
(Phys.org) -- The area of the globe covered by wetlands (swamps, marshes, lakes, etc.) has dropped by 6% in fifteen years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in areas ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Climate right for Asian mosquito to spread in N. Europe
The climate in northwestern Europe and the Balkans is becoming suitable for the Asian tiger mosquito, a disease-spreading invasive species, scientists said on Wednesday.
Apr 25, 2012 |
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NASA watches a Gulf Weather system for unusual subtropical development
Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico doesn't begin until June 1, 2012, but a low pressure area in the Gulf called System 90L, is being watched on February 5 and 6 for possible development ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Fast new test for terrible form of food poisoning
Scientists are reporting development of a fast, reliable new test that could help people avoid a terrible type of food poisoning that comes from eating fish tainted with a difficult-to-detect toxin from marine ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 09, 2011 |
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NASA satellites show towering thunderstorms in rare sub-tropical storm Arani
NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites are providing data to scientists about the Southern Atlantic Ocean Sub-tropical Storm Arani, a rare occurrence in the southern ocean. Rainfall data and cloud top temperatures ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Aqua satellite spots rare Southern Atlantic sub-tropical storm
NASA's Aqua satellite spotted some strong convection in a recently formed low pressure area that strengthened into Sub-Tropical Storm Arani in the South Atlantic. Arani formed near the coast of Brazil and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2011 |
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NASA satellites see Nicole become a remnant, another low soaking US East Coast
Tropical Storm Nicole was a tropical storm for around 6 hours before it weakened into a remnant low pressure area and is now off the Florida coast. NASA Satellite imagery captured different views of Nicole's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Wacky weather could squeeze Florida's citrus season
Citrus growers, beware. Florida winters are getting more extreme, causing plants to flower later and potentially shrinking the growing seasons for some of the state's most vital crops.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Report suggests nearly 5 percent exposed to dengue virus in Key West
An estimated 5 percent of the Key West, Fla., population - over 1,000 people - showed evidence of recent exposure to dengue virus in 2009, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 13, 2010 |
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