News tagged with winter
El Nino Could Play A Role In Colorado's Winter Weather, Scientist Says
(PhysOrg.com) -- El Nino, a warming event of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere, has strengthened in recent months and already appears to have influenced Colorado's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Prevent tomato late blight next growing season
(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Winter forecast: Warmer West, North; cooler South
(AP) -- The Midwest and Northern United States are likely to get a warmer winter, while the Southeast can expect just the opposite: cooler and wetter conditions.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Floundering El Ninos Make for Fickle Forecasts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niña to her warmer sibling, El Niño. This cyclical warming of the ocean waters ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg
(PhysOrg.com) -- As northern Europe enjoys a rather warm start to autumn, an international team of 20 polar scientists have brought icy winter conditions to the middle of Hamburg, Germany. They are studying the effect of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Study: Small fluctuations in solar activity, large influence on the climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Subtle connections between the 11-year solar cycle, the stratosphere, and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Study: Young Arctic muskoxen better at keeping warm than scientists thought
A new study finds that young muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold. The study, ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Rapid changes in the winter climate
The Baltic Sea winter climate has changed more in the last 500 years than previously thought. Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that our part of the world has experienced periods of both ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2009 |
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New study reveals unexpected relationship between climate warming and advancing treelines
A new study reveals that treelines are not responding to climate warming as expected. The research, the first global quantitative assessment of the relationship between climate warming and treeline advance, is published in ...
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Swiss now pray that glacier will stop shrinking
(AP) -- Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Fall driving more hazardous than summer or winter
(PhysOrg.com) -- While many believe summer is the most dangerous season on U.S. roads because motorists tend to drive faster, drink more alcohol and drive more often for leisure, a new report by the University of Michigan ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous
New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous - a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Dry autumns and winters may lead to fewer tornadoes in the spring
Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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