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New clues to air circulation in the atmosphere
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Air circulates above the Earth in four distinct cells, with two either side of the equator, says new research. The new observational study describes how air rises and falls in the atmosphere above the Earth's surface, creating ...
Death rates will rise because of global warming
Jul 02, 2007 |
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Global warming will cause more deaths in summer because of higher temperatures but these will not be offset by fewer deaths in milder winters finds an analysis published online ahead of print in Occupational and Environment Me ...
Dutch research into fair-weather clouds important in climate predictions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Research at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) has led to better understanding of clouds, the unknown quantity in current climate models. The Delft researcher Thijs Heus has tackled this ...
Dirty air brings rain -- then again, maybe not
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2008 |
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An international team of scientists, headed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of ...
Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars.
Air pollution from freeway extends further than previously thought
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Environmental health researchers from UCLA, the University of Southern California and the California Air Resources Board have found that during the hours before sunrise, freeway air pollution extends much further than previously ...
Researchers look at effects of weather, air pollution on headaches
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Although large numbers of headache sufferers, particularly individuals who struggle with migraines, attribute their pain to the weather, there has been little scientific evidence to back up their assertions. Now, a study ...
Envisat Images Hurricane Gustav
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 05, 2008 |
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The development and path of Hurricane Gustav is shown via a sequence of satellite images acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 25 August, 28 August, 30 August and ...
Earth from Space: Typhoon Melor
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This Envisat image captures Typhoon Melor spinning in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the Philippines on 6 October before slamming into the main Japanese island of Honshu on Thursday.
Bacterial 'Switch Gene' Regulates How Oceans Emit Sulfur into Atmosphere
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered a bacterial "switch gene" in two groups of microscopic plankton common in the oceans. The gene helps determine whether certain marine plankton convert a sulfur compound to one that rises into the ...
HiRISE Catches a Dust Devil on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2007 |
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The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit ...
Rocket launches Air Force satellite from Fla.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral.
China picks first female astronaut candidates
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China's military-backed space program has selected 45 astronaut candidates, including its first women hopefuls, for a training program less than a year after the country completed its first spacewalk.
'Build parks to climate proof our cities'
May 14, 2007 |
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Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises.
Probing Question: Why doesn't it thunderstorm in the winter?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Some parents tell their children that thunderstorms occur when God goes bowling, but an observant youngster might wonder why The Big Guy only bowls in the summertime.
