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Study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia

(PhysOrg.com) -- The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in the future, according to a recent ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 2

Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)

Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (30) | comments 7

Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle

The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Extreme summer temperatures occur more frequently: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Extreme summer temperatures are already occurring more frequently in the United States, and will become normal by mid-century if the world continues on a business as usual schedule of emitting ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (21) | comments 64 | with audio podcast

Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits 2nd-lowest level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Climate flux matched Europe's social rise and fall

Ancient tree rings show links between climate change and major events in human history, like migrations, plagues and the rise and fall of empires, said a study this week in the journal Science.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 98

Stanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers

The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (14) | comments 16

Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

12-mile-high Martian dust devil caught in act

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Determining how warm this summer really was

An unparalleled heat wave in eastern Europe, coupled with intense droughts and fires around Moscow, put Earth's temperatures in the headlines this summer. Likewise, a string of exceptionally warm days in July ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Mars' northern polar regions in transition

A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Austrian glaciers shrink dramatically

Austria's glaciers shrank dramatically this summer, the most since a record hot period in 2003, principally because of low amounts of snow the preceding winter, scientists said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 14

Fourth warmest U.S. summer on record according to NOAA

The contiguous United States had its fourth-warmest summer (June-August) on record, according to the latest NOAA State of the Climate report issued today. The report also showed the August average temperature was 75 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Plants take a hike as temperatures rise

Plants are flowering at higher elevations in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains as summer temperatures rise, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Flowering plant found at record 4,505m in Swiss alps

A flowering plant has been found at an altitude of above 4,505 metres (14,780 feet) on the central Swiss alps -- a European record, Basel University said Tuesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0