El Niño and La Niña: What's it all about?
It's official: An El Niño event is now underway across the Pacific.
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
0
2
Page 5 - News tagged with central america
Alarming results from world-first study of two decades of global smoke pollution
The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that more than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2023
0
29
A finer picture of global migration reveals complex patterns
While public discussions often focus on climate change driving people to emigrate, new research published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that net-migration patterns around the world are actually more strongly linked with ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
0
17
How drought in Central America is pushing up the cost of living in Australia
What does a drought in Central America have to do with Australia's cost of living? Quite a lot, if the drought affects the Panama Canal.
Economics & Business
Aug 29, 2023
0
1
Q&A: How do youth view the way gang violence is shaping their communities?
How do children and adolescents evaluate and reason about acts of physical violence in the context of chronic violence that impacts their communities? Previous studies have used situations that correspond with a single act ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2023
0
26
If El Niño is expected, why hasn't it yet been declared in Australia?
The world recorded its hottest ever week two weeks ago. At the same time, the UN's weather agency declared a global El Niño.
Environment
Jul 18, 2023
0
5
Miniature snail in a rock sandwich: Study describes first fossil record of thorn snails in the southern US
Researchers from the U.S. and Switzerland, including Senckenberg scientist and first author Dr. Adrienne Jochum, have described the first fossil Carychium land snails from Florida. The rock layer containing the snail fossils, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 16, 2023
0
123
Tropical butterflies' wings could help them withstand climate change, study suggests
Tropical butterflies with bigger, longer and narrower wings are better able to stay cool when temperatures get too hot.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2023
0
58
Study finds evidence of ancient breeding of scarlet macaws
People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in, what is today, New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archaeological site. The paper is published in the journal PNAS Nexus.
Ecology
Jun 14, 2023
0
101
Here comes El Nino: It's early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming world
An early bird El Nino has officially formed, likely to be strong, warp weather worldwide and give an already warming Earth an extra kick of natural heat, meteorologists announced.
Environment
Jun 8, 2023
0
23
