Projected growth in rocket launches for space tourism, moon landings, and perhaps travel to Mars has many dreaming of a new era of space exploration. But a NOAA study suggests that a significant boost in spaceflight activity ...
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2022
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For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice melting rapidly. Researchers ...
Environment
May 26, 2022
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Severe droughts happened simultaneously in the regions that supply water to Southern California almost six times per century on average since 1500, according to new University of Arizona-led research.
Environment
Jan 13, 2020
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A group of scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the UK Met Office Hadley Center, investigated the absence of the East Asia-Pacific pattern in the extratropics using state-of-the-art ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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At roughly 415,000 acres, Northern California's Mendocino Complex Fire is now the state's largest recorded wildfire, surpassing the record held by Santa Barbara and Ventura counties' Thomas Fire, which occurred less than ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2018
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Volcanic eruptions emit sulfate aerosols via volcanic plumes, which may stay in the stratosphere for months to years, reflecting sunlight back into space, cooling the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere over a long time ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2017
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Gardeners know the frustration of a false spring. Coaxed outside by warm weather, some people plant their gardens in the spring only to see a sudden late frost strike at the plants with a killer freezer burn. Grumbling green ...
Earth Sciences
May 23, 2017
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A new study published in Climate Change Responses by UH Mānoa researchers shows how shifting atmospheric circulation patterns that may be caused by climate change are threatening populations of the iconic silversword on ...
Ecology
Feb 2, 2016
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The Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Bristol, UK suggests.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2015
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Major volcanic eruptions can have a significant effect on the flow of the biggest rivers around the world, research shows.
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2015
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