NASA: Last month was Earth's hottest in recorded history
Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA.
Environment
Aug 15, 2016
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News tagged with el nino
Planet marks new highs for heat, pollutants, sea level in 2016: report
The Earth set a series of dire records in 2016, including hottest year in modern times, highest sea level and most heat-trapping gases ever emitted, a global climate report said Thursday.
Environment
Aug 10, 2017
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Slowdown in global warming only temporary, new study finds
A slowing in global warming that climate sceptics say undermines the greenhouse theory is simply a "hiatus" from higher temperatures, scientists said on Wednesday.
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2013
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Scientists expect Hawaii's worst coral bleaching ever
Warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures around Hawaii this year will likely lead to the worst coral bleaching the islands have ever seen, scientists said Friday.
Environment
Sep 12, 2015
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2010 hurricane season may be worst on record: officials
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season may be one of the worst on record, US officials warned Thursday, amid fears it could deepen an oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico and bring new misery to Haiti.
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2010
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Climate: El Nino weakens, La Nina threatens
The Pacific weather pattern known as El Nino is all but gone, climate scientists say, while its alter ego, La Nina, might soon appear on the horizon.
Earth Sciences
May 24, 2010
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NASA studying 2015 El Nino event as never before
Every two to seven years, an unusually warm pool of water—sometimes two to three degrees Celsius higher than normal develops across the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean to create a natural short-term climate change event. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2015
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Global coral bleaching event expected to last through 2016
After the most powerful El Nino on record heated the world's oceans to never-before-seen levels, huge swaths of once vibrant coral reefs that were teeming with life are now stark white ghost towns disintegrating into the ...
Environment
Jun 21, 2016
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Naturally heat-resilient corals transplanted to nurseries survive El Nino bleaching event
A pair of researchers with Stanford University has found that some naturally heat-resistant corals were able to survive relocation, even after an El Nino warming event. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
In graveyard of dead coral in Pacific, hope and life bloom
In a ghost town of dead coral off a remote Pacific island, scientists have found a bit more life.
Environment
Nov 18, 2016
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