Successive, extreme cold events in the Northern Hemisphere this winter may be linked
Climate change is altering weather patterns, making it increasingly difficult to accurately predict extreme cold weather events in the short term.
Climate change is altering weather patterns, making it increasingly difficult to accurately predict extreme cold weather events in the short term.
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2023
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Most of his career, Justin Crocker, EMBL Heidelberg Group Leader, has been working at the interface of development and evolution. In two new studies led by Crocker, scientists have shown how using non-standard laboratory ...
Evolution
Feb 8, 2023
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Since antiquity, humans have been fascinated by birds' intercontinental migratory journeys. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that two areas in their genome decide whether a willow warbler flies across the ...
Ecology
Feb 2, 2023
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Every two to seven years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean gets up to 3°C warmer (what we know as an El Niño event) or colder (La Niña) than usual, triggering a cascade of effects felt around the world. This cycle is called ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2023
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Birds including swallows and martins—known as aerial insectivores—control insect populations and insect-borne disease and provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of pest control for agriculture. But these feathered ...
Ecology
Jan 27, 2023
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California faces a "parade of storms" over the next several weeks, on top of recent deluges that have killed at least 12 people, caused flooding, knocked out power and forced evacuations and school closures up and down the ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2023
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In a warming world, coal can often seem the "bad guy." But we can do other things with coal besides burn it. A team at Ohio University used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2 system to carry out a series of ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 5, 2023
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In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California and Arizona, Tony Alameda has seen plenty of bad years. But lately, he said, there have been many more "noticeably bad" years ...
Agriculture
Dec 22, 2022
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As strong winds and torrential rains inundate Australia's south-eastern coast, new research suggests that high intensity bushfires might not be too far behind, with their dual effects extending damage zones and encroaching ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2022
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In the summer of 2022, scientists predicted that a "third-year" La Niña is very likely to occur during the winter of 2022.
Environment
Nov 21, 2022
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