News tagged with wet climate

Climatic effects of a solar minimum

An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 92 | with audio podcast

MARSIS completes measurement campaign over Martian North Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Largest recorded tundra fire yields scientific surprises

In 2007 the largest recorded tundra fire in the circumpolar arctic released approximately as much carbon into the atmosphere as the tundra has stored in the previous 50 years, say scientists in the July 28 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study shows climate may heavily influence plague development

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has undertaken a study, the results of which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, to better understand the link b ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Channels from Mars Hale Crater

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1