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NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super typhoon

Nov 25, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Typhoon Nida is in a favorable environment that has enabled it to intensify faster and stronger than previously forecast, and has now exploded into a Super typhoon. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Nida and ...

Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the ...

Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand

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Nov 24, 2009 | 3 / 5 (5) | 1

(AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.

Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds

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Nov 24, 2009 | 3 / 5 (6) | 9

The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, ...

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 30, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (13) | 1

Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...

Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 24, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. ...