http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger before reaching the Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news172423924.html Biology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:45:57 EST news172423924 Two tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific are keeping in tune to the 1969 hit song by the Beatles, "Come Together." Tropical Depression 18W and Tropical Storm Parma are already beginning to merge now that 18W made landfall in Guam and dissipated. 18W did bring gusty winds and heavy downpours to Guam, and will continue to affect the surf over the next day or two. http://www.physorg.com/news173553116.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:20:01 EST news173553116 NOAA and Norwegian researchers recently completed a comparative analysis of marine ecosystems in the North Atlantic and North Pacific to see what factors support fisheries production, leading to new insights that could improve fishery management plans and the ecosystems. http://www.physorg.com/news173553196.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:40:01 EST news173553196 (PhysOrg.com) -- Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niņa to her warmer sibling, El Niņo. This cyclical warming of the ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific generally occurs every three to seven years, and is linked with changes in the strength of the trade winds. El Niņo can affect weather worldwide, including the Atlantic hurricane season, Asian monsoon season and northern hemisphere winter storm season. But while scientists agree that El Niņo is back, there's less consensus about its future strength. http://www.physorg.com/news173426040.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:54:34 EST news173426040 (PhysOrg.com) -- El Niņo, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news172930305.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:12:42 EST news172930305 Typhoon Choi-Wan passed the island of Iwo To stirring up heavy surf, hurricane-force winds and torrential, flooding rains. This weekend, it will continue on its northeasterly track paralleling Japan, while its center remains in the open Western Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news172513582.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:26:51 EST news172513582 Marty was still holding onto tropical storm status on September 18, with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph and taking a slow march through the Eastern Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news172512688.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:12:01 EST news172512688 The latest tropical storm in the western Pacific formed on Sunday, and is poised to make landfall in mainland China on Tuesday, near typhoon strength (74 mph). Two NASA satellites captured different views of its clouds. http://www.physorg.com/news172151910.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:50:01 EST news172151910 Microwave imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed extremely high thunderstorms in Typhoon Choi-Wan as it began passing the island of Sai-Pan in the Western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. National Weather Service has already issued a tropical storm warning and a typhoon watch for Tinian, Saipan and Agrihan in the Northern Mariana Islands. http://www.physorg.com/news172151667.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:30:01 EST news172151667 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Washington Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished on a single mission. http://www.physorg.com/news171813908.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:05:46 EST news171813908 (AP) -- Doris Smith Mills often comes across past editions of the "Old Farmer's Almanac" lying around her family's 110-year-old Westport, Mass., farm. She believes previous Smiths read it for entertainment and its yearly weather predictions to ready for New England's fickle climate changes. http://www.physorg.com/news171801171.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:34:16 EST news171801171 Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch." http://www.physorg.com/news170609243.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:20:02 EST news170609243 (PhysOrg.com) -- Subtle connections between the 11-year solar cycle, the stratosphere, and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe, according to research appearing this week in the journal Science. The study can help scientists get an edge on eventually predicting the intensity of certain climate phenomena, such as the Indian monsoon and tropical Pacific rainfall, years in advance. http://www.physorg.com/news170601993.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:01 EST news170601993 Tropical Storm Ignacio may not be alone in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for long. There are two areas of showers and thunderstorms that forecasters and the GOES-11 satellite are watching for development, farther east and closer to land. http://www.physorg.com/news170516153.html Space & Earth Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:10:01 EST news170516153 Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles in diameter! http://www.physorg.com/news170346671.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:31:48 EST news170346671 There are a lot of ups and downs in tropical cyclone formation in the Pacific Ocean this week, and that's keeping NOAA's GOES-11 satellite busy. There are remnants of Maka and Tropical Depression 9E, a fizzled Felicia, and a new Tropical Storm named Guillermo. http://www.physorg.com/news169382575.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:43:40 EST news169382575 Tropical Storm Felicia is closing in on the Hawaiian Island chain and its center is now expected to pass just north of the big island before moving through the islands Tuesday and Wednesday. Two NASA satellites captured the height and temperatures of Felicia's clouds to assist meteorologists in their forecasts as she approaches Hawaii. She's already stirring up the surf. http://www.physorg.com/news169136738.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:40:10 EST news169136738 Felicia is the storm that rules the Eastern Pacific Ocean this week, but Enrique refuses to give up. Felicia is a major hurricane with sustained winds near 140 mph, and Enrique is still hanging onto tropical storm status with 50 mph sustained winds. Both cyclones are close to each other and NASA satellites captured them together. http://www.physorg.com/news168791236.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:28:11 EST news168791236 (PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand is the site of one of the world`s youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth`s crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows how water deep underground helps the subduction zone mature and paves the way for it to generate powerful earthquakes. http://www.physorg.com/news168507035.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:00:02 EST news168507035 (AP) -- Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon - long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty. http://www.physorg.com/news168442502.html Biology Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:50:01 EST news168442502 The role of clouds in climate change has been a major question for decades. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether clouds will dissipate, letting in more of the sun's heat energy and making the earth warm even faster, or whether cloud cover will increase, blocking the Sun's rays and actually slowing down global warming. http://www.physorg.com/news167579418.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:50:56 EST news167579418 A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news167460342.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:46:09 EST news167460342 Personal computer sales in Asia ended two consecutive quarters of contraction to post robust growth in the second quarter of 2009, a report released Monday said. http://www.physorg.com/news167279457.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:30:01 EST news167279457 Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., shows that maximum solar activity and its aftermath have impacts on Earth that resemble La Niņa and El Niņo events in the tropical Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news166966122.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:29:09 EST news166966122 Carlos became a hurricane for about 24 hours over the previous weekend, then powered down to a tropical storm and now atmospheric conditions have enabled him to power back into a hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news166786962.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:00:01 EST news166786962 US scientists on Thursday said that the El Nino warming trend of the Pacific Ocean waters has returned, bringing with it almost certain changes in weather patterns around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news166367335.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:09:26 EST news166367335 A new study evaluates expected ground motion in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver from earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 - 9.0, providing engineers and policymakers with a new tool to build or retrofit structures to withstand seismic waves from large "subduction" earthquakes off the continent's west coast. http://www.physorg.com/news163905800.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:23:30 EST news163905800 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Abyss is a dark, deep place, but it's no longer hidden. At least when Nereus is on the scene. Nereus is a new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle, called a hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV). http://www.physorg.com/news163267378.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:03:36 EST news163267378 A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to 10,902 meters (6.8 miles) occurred on May 31, 2009, at the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news163167519.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:19:47 EST news163167519 The world faces well-known milestones for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades to reduce the dangers of climate change. Now an international consortium is doing the same to demand action against threats to the Pacific Ocean that they say endangers environmental and human well-being in countries rich and poor. http://www.physorg.com/news163096906.html Space & Earth Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:42:11 EST news163096906