Australian rescuers were forced Thursday to begin euthanising some surviving whales from a mass stranding that has already killed 380 members of the giant pod.
Ecology
Sep 24, 2020
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Tropical cyclones are considered one of the most devastating weather events in Australia. But they're erratic—where, when and how many tropical cyclones form each year is highly variable, which makes them difficult to predict.
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2020
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At least 380 whales have died in a mass stranding in southern Australia, officials said Wednesday, as hopes faded of saving more than a few dozen of those creatures still trapped.
Ecology
Sep 23, 2020
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The "butterfly effect" is used by climate scientists to refer to an infinitesimally random perturbation to an identical initial condition (for example, in surface temperatures) causing drastically different El Niño trajectories.
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2020
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California is ablaze, again. Currently, the second and third largest fires in the US state's history are burning at the same time, and are only partially controlled. Already, seven people have died and 2,144 structures are ...
Environment
Aug 31, 2020
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Earth's tropics are expanding poleward and that expansion is driven by human-caused changes to the ocean, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 2020
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A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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The first comprehensive worldwide assessment of heatwaves down to regional levels has revealed that in nearly every part of the world heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s.
Environment
Jul 3, 2020
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Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers claim.
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2020
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New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean's surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.
Earth Sciences
Mar 9, 2020
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