6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now
The world is very warm right now. We're not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins.
The world is very warm right now. We're not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins.
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2023
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In September 2023, extreme rains struck South Africa's Western Cape province, flooding villages and leaving a trail of destruction. The catastrophic devastation is just one recent example in a string of extreme weather events ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2023
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Already the world's hottest coastal environment in the summer, the shallow sea between the Arabian peninsula and southwestern Iran continues to heat at a breathtaking pace.
Environment
Oct 3, 2023
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Scientists are pretty good at recognizing marine heat waves. A global network of thousands of oceanic buoys and orbiting satellites allow them to see, in real time, ocean surface temperatures, changing currents and storm ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2023
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Superbolts are more likely to strike the closer a storm cloud's electrical charging zone is to the land or ocean's surface, a new study finds. These conditions are responsible for superbolt "hotspots" above some oceans and ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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A strong El Niño event is going to wreak havoc on global surface temperature and trigger several climate crises in 2023–2024, according to researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets in our solar system.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 26, 2023
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Tropical cyclones are extreme weather events, characterized by a circular form and formation over warm tropical oceans experiencing low atmospheric pressure, high winds and heavy rain. Tropical storms exceed 39 miles per ...
It's official: An El Niño event is now underway across the Pacific.
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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Multiyear La Niña events have become more common over the last 100 years, according to a new study led by University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa atmospheric scientist Bin Wang. Five out of six La Niña events since 1998 have ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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