An international team led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego used computer model simulations to find that climate change is altering the mechanics of surface ocean circulations, making them ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2022
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South Africa, the continent's most industrialised country, has largely escaped the tropical cyclones that regularly hit its neighbours.
Environment
Apr 18, 2022
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In China, the year 2021 was marked by a series of highly unusual weather events, including record cold conditions in January, freak dust storms in spring and severe flooding in Zhengzhou in July.
Environment
Apr 14, 2022
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Organized play and sporting opportunities for children have finally started to resume after having just passed the two-year mark of the pandemic.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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While shrews are evasive and rarely seen, these small insectivorous mammals are very abundant. One species, the greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) is particularly successful: it is expanding in Europe and has ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2022
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French wine and fruit growers were hit by the coldest April day since 1947 overnight Sunday and early Monday, the second straight year they have suffered freak spring weather.
Environment
Apr 4, 2022
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If you're among the one in six Australians to experience the bitter pain of a marine stinger such as a bluebottle, you'll know how quickly they can end a fun day at the beach.
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2022
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In the pristine expanse of Alaska's interior lies a dirty secret: some of the most polluted winter air in the United States can be found in and around Fairbanks.
Environment
Mar 24, 2022
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One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that ...
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2022
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You visit the nursery, pick out a primo plant, come home, put it in the ground and wait for it to become a beautiful tree, shrub or perennial. Then spring arrives and it's dead or floundering.
Environment
Mar 21, 2022
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