Global satellite data shows clouds will amplify global heating
A new approach to analyze satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.
A new approach to analyze satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2021
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Compared to other animals, chimpanzees show tremendous variation across groups in their behavior—from the types of tools they use in their feeding behavior to the specific gestures they use in communication. Research in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2019
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Snowcapped mountains not only look majestic, they're also vital to a delicate ecosystem that has existed for tens of thousands of years. Mountain water runoff and snowmelt flows down to streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans—and ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies.
Environment
Oct 19, 2021
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The Great Barrier Reef's outlook remains "very poor" despite coral recovery over the past year, Australian government scientists said Monday, just days before a UNESCO ruling on the site's world heritage status.
Ecology
Jul 19, 2021
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As winters become milder and lake ice less stable, more children and young adults are falling through the ice and fatally drowning, say York University researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2020
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The relationship between aerosols (particulate matter) and their cooling effect on the Earth due to the formation of clouds is more than twice as strong as was previously thought. As the amounts of aerosols decrease, climate ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2019
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New research, published in the journal Science Advances, has found that unusual ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic can drastically increase April tornado occurrences over the Great Plains region of the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2019
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It's widely known that the Earth's average temperature has been rising. But research by an Indiana University geographer and colleagues finds that spatial patterns of extreme temperature anomalies—readings well above or ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2014
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Recent decades may have been the wettest in 3,500 years in North East Tibet – according to climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UK) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lanzhou, China).
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2014
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