Volcanic eruptions are among the most important natural causes of climate change, playing a leading role over the past millennium. Injections of sulfate aerosols into the lower stratosphere reduce the incoming solar radiation, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2018
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The Paraguay River is an essential lifeblood for the landlocked country that shares it name. It provides Paraguayans with fishing, irrigation for agriculture and access to shipping. But it's also prone to seasonal flooding, ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2018
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The bad news: Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa—totaling a staggering 2 to 9 trillion pounds worldwide—has been almost a biblical plague on Texas and much of the Southern United States in recent weeks. The good news: ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2018
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Dramatic human-caused changes in land cover between 1850 and the 1930s had a substantive effect on the 1930s Dust Bowl drought in the Great Plains, a new study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers finds.
Environment
May 23, 2018
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Scientists have published a detailed analysis of how 22 recent hurricanes would change if they instead formed near the end of this century. While each storm's transformation would be unique, on balance, the hurricanes would ...
Environment
May 21, 2018
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North China faces a serious water crisis. Almost half of China's population lives in the region, and most wheat and corn are grown there. Since the late 1990s, severe and extreme droughts have frequently occurred, and drought ...
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2018
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Due to a scarcity of useful observations to guide model development, Earth system models often miss the mark in predicting tropical clouds and their effects on incoming and outgoing energy in the atmosphere. For most of the ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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Surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies have pronounced impacts on agriculture, socioeconomic development, and people's daily lives. For example, the record-breaking hot summer over many parts of the Eurasia resulted in broad ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2018
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The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by University of Maryland scientists. The research is the first to assess century-scale changes to the boundaries of the world's largest ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2018
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Salinity in the North Atlantic dropped dramatically over the last decade, according to a new study that used data from a floating network of sensors to get the most detailed picture yet of changing ocean conditions in the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2018
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