New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with climate change
Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston.
Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston.
Environment
Nov 18, 2023
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Scraping ice off windshields, salting driveways, shoveling walks—all miserable activities associated with winter weather. As much as individuals dread those activities, airport directors dread them even more because they ...
Engineering
Feb 16, 2016
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If you're interested to see how warm your neighborhood will look like at 2090, here's a chance. There's new data available that has monthly climate projections for the continental United States at the size of a neighborhood, ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2013
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A Russian Black Sea city declared a state of emergency Thursday after a burst pipeline spewed oil into the landlocked water body, with stormy weather hampering cleanup efforts.
Environment
Dec 25, 2014
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Periods of extreme cold winter weather and perilous snowfall, similar to those that gripped the UK in a deep freeze with the arrival of the 'Beast from the East', could be linked to the solar cycle, pioneering new research ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2018
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Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 31, 2022
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Using satellite data to 'see in the dark', researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter, a finding with implications for the speed at which the world's second-largest ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2021
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Throughout Earth's oceans runs a conveyor belt of water. Its churning is powered by differences in the water's temperature and saltiness, and weather patterns around the world are regulated by its activity.
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2021
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The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars rover Spirit is fading after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth.
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2011
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For more than 700 years the Friary of Folloni near Montella in Italy has protected and guarded some small fragments of textile.
Archaeology
Sep 25, 2017
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