A non-native snake species that has already wiped out most of Guam's tree-dwelling birds is also decimating the Pacific island's forests, researchers said Wednesday.
Ecology
Mar 8, 2017
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Many thousands of years ago, as the world slowly began to thaw at the end of the last ice age, the landscapes of southern Peru were quite different than the ones University of Maine's Gordon Bromley finds himself wandering ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2016
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A study led by researchers at the Global Change Unit at the Universitat de València (UV) shows the impact the current 2015/2016 El Niño is having in Amazonia. Areas of extreme drought and changes to their typical distribution ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2016
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The ongoing El Niño of 2015-2016 is a historically strong event, the likes of which is only seen once or twice during a scientific career. Not wanting to let this opportunity pass by, scientists from NOAA and NASA have embarked ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2016
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NOAA scientists and partners have embarked on a land, sea, and air campaign in the tropical Pacific to study the current El Niño and gather data in an effort to improve weather forecasts thousands of miles away.
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2016
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An El Nino-related tropical storm has formed southwest of Hawaii, only the third such system to develop in January in over 40 years.
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2016
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The latest observations are clear: A monster El Niño is currently brewing in the Pacific Ocean.
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
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The current El Nino weather pattern may be on track to become one of the strongest in more than half a century, experts at the World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 1, 2015
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Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, project fire risk for South America's Amazon Basin in 2015 to fall along an east-west divide. According to their model, based on multiple satellite datasets, the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2015
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The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is one of several instruments aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. AIRS observes the Earth in infrared light, allowing scientists to determine the temperature structure of the atmosphere, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2015
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