Authorities in several Gulf countries renewed weather warnings on Sunday as several days of heavy rains batter the usually arid region.
Environment
Jan 2, 2022
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Researchers have identified 187 individual North Atlantic right whales—about 40 percent of the catalogued population—in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence during the summer. They used photographs of North Atlantic right whales ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2021
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Whales in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf consume about three million microplastics per day, a new study has found.
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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Scientists know that red tide and other harmful algae blooms can kill marine life and make pets and people sick. Certain types of algae produce toxins that can cause respiratory problems, liver failure and nervous system ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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The ice sheets of Greenland are melting at an alarming rate. This causes large amounts of freshwater to flow into the North Atlantic, thereby slowing the Gulf Stream. Researchers fear that this will have noticeable effects ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2021
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Over the past four decades, the time between tropical storms making landfall in the Gulf Coast has been getting shorter. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida could be twice as likely to experience two tropical ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2021
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The potential for major earthquakes around the southern end of the Gulf of Aqaba may be lower than geophysicists feared. Separate studies by two students, using quite different approaches but arriving at similar findings, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2021
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A team of researchers with members affiliated with a large number of institutions across Japan has found that the Gulf stream and Kuroshio are synchronized on a decadal time scale. In their paper published in the journal ...
The population of California sea lions is down dramatically due to climate change, but in one natural refuge area off the coast of northwest Mexico, they are doing well and delighting tourists who dare to swim with them.
Ecology
Oct 15, 2021
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Whether birds get caged in the eye of a hurricane may depend on the intensity and totality of the chaos beyond the calm, says a novel study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Matthew Van Den Broeke.
Plants & Animals
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