Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt—a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator—according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2021
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Weather systems responsible for transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere have been gradually shifting toward the South Pole for the past 40 years, a trend which could lead to ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2020
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A new study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology confirms that most birds—but not all—synchronize their migratory movements with seasonal changes in vegetation greenness. This is the first study of its kind to cover the ...
Ecology
Oct 27, 2020
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The southeastern U.S. is getting dusted by the Sahara.
Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2020
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Over three weeks starting Saturday, thousands of birders in the Western Hemisphere will take part in the annual, 119-year-old Audubon Christmas Bird Count. These tallies are conducted in prearranged circles within a seven-mile ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2019
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Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven (Belgium) have developed a method to measure the snow depth in all mountain ranges in the Northern Hemisphere using satellites. This technique makes it possible to study areas that cannot ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2019
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Researchers propose in a new study why an extreme solar storm in 1859 was so damaging to Earth's magnetic field. They compared the storm with other extreme storms in history, suggesting this storm is not likely unique.
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2019
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Eleven new to science species of rain frogs are described by two scientists from the Museum of Zoology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in the open-access journal ZooKeys. Discovered in the Ecuadorian Andes, ...
Ecology
Aug 2, 2019
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The uneven impact of climate change is actually helping corn and soybean farmers in the Upper Midwest.
Environment
Jul 12, 2019
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Parts of Alaska's mountainous Brooks Range were likely transported from Greenland and a stretch of the Canadian Arctic much farther to the east, according to a series of Dartmouth-led studies detailing over 300 million years ...
Earth Sciences
May 28, 2019
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