El Niño and La Niña: What's it all about?
It's official: An El Niño event is now underway across the Pacific.
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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News tagged with south america
Alarming results from world-first study of two decades of global smoke pollution
The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that more than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2023
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Avian flu hits bird paradise of Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos National Park said Tuesday that it had detected its first cases of avian flu on the remote islands, home to unique bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution.
Ecology
Sep 20, 2023
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NASA announces summer 2023 hottest on record
Summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2023
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New species of spiny mouse discovered in rainforest
A new species of spiny mouse has been discovered in Ecuador, making it the 14th of its genus to be identified in the past five years. Neacomys marci, which was previously confused with another species, is around the length ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2023
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Glaciers could provide powerful new volcano monitoring tool
Glaciers could become a powerful tool for monitoring some volcanoes, according to new research that shows for the first time how the altitude of glaciers located on volcanoes could signal future unrest including the threat ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2023
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265-million-year-old fossil reveals oldest, largest predator in South America, long before the rise of dinosaurs
Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai dominated South America as the biggest and most bloodthirsty ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 12, 2023
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Probing rare hot plasma flows in the upper atmosphere
Near Earth's poles, observers of the night sky often behold aurorae, colorful light shows in the upper atmosphere caused by interactions between the solar wind and our planet's magnetosphere. A little closer to the equator, ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 11, 2023
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Fossil of oldest-known koala relative unearthed in central Australia
A small team of evolutionary biologists at Flinders University, in Australia, working with one colleague from the University of Salford in the U.K. and another from the University of California, Los Angeles, has found fossilized ...
Extreme El Niño weather saw South America's forest carbon sink switch off
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2023
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