News tagged with tropical rain

New research may improve the efficiency of the biofuel production cycle

(Phys.org) -- Using new experimental methods and computational analysis, a team of scientists from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Livermore's Michael Thelen, discovered how certain bacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Research with tropical frogs shedding light on human hearing and attention disorders

A study conducted by Hamilton Farris, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Otorhinolaryngology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, reveals new information about the way tungara frogs in the tropical ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient catastrophic drought leads to question: How severe can climate change become?

How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

New gecko species identified in West African rain forests

The West African forest gecko, a secretive but widely distributed species in forest patches from Ghana to Congo, is actually four distinct species that appear to have evolved over the past 100,000 years due ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA's TRMM sees huge Typhoon Parma bringing more rain to the Philippines

Typhoon Parma is a huge storm and NASA's TRMM satellite sees it is already bringing more unwanted rains and gusty winds to the typhoon-weary and devastated Philippines. Parma, also called "Pepeng" in the Philippines, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ferns took to the trees and thrived

(PhysOrg.com) -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA sees a 'hot tower' in newborn eastern Pacific Tropical Depression 2E

"Hot Tower" rain clouds within a tropical cyclone indicate that the storm is going to intensify, and that's what NASA's TRMM satellite spotted in newborn Tropical Depression 2E (TD2E) in the eastern Pacific ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Depression 03W's 'hot tower' on approach to Guam

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has caught two tropical cyclones with "hot towers" this week, and that's a hallmark that they'll intensify. Tropical Depression 03W is approaching Guam ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery

Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Rain-soaked Madagascar again threatened by Cyclone Giovanna

Rainfall data from NASA's TRMM satellite revealed that parts of Madagascar's east coast received over a foot (30 cm) of rainfall from Cyclone Giovanna's passage, and new satellite data shows Cyclone Giovanna ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'

Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older is better for hunting dogs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older dogs and male dogs are better hunting companions than younger dogs and female dogs says the author of a new study on the hunting ability and nutritional status of domestic dogs in lowland ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New satellite observations reveal link between forests and acid rain

A team from LATMOS/IPSL, working in collaboration with Belgian researchers from the Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB) and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), have revealed the existence ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Brazil says Amazon deforestation down to lowest level

Brazil said Monday that the pace of deforestation in its Amazon region fell to its lowest level since authorities began monitoring the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Global warming dominates regional effects of land-use change

(PhysOrg.com) -- Changes in snow and rain caused by global warming dominate the effects of land-use change on regional climates, according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9