News tagged with daily temperatures


Scientists track warming trend in northwestern North America

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A new Montana State University study says that weather, especially in late winter and early spring, is getting warmer in northwestern North America.





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Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US

Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (28) | comments 7

Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs ...


European heat waves double in length since 1880

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 03, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The most accurate measures of European daily temperatures ever indicate that the length of heat waves on the continent has doubled and the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century. The new data ...


Climate change may alter malaria patterns

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created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Temperature is an important factor in the spread of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, but researchers who look at average monthly or annual temperatures are not seeing the whole picture. Global climate change will ...


Ozone key to link between heat and increased cardiovascular death risk

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 26, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ozone may prove the key to the link between high temperature and the increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke, suggests research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.


Maine weather wreaking havoc on deer

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created Mar 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Deer living in Maine and other portions of New England are likely battling starvation because of the region's tough winter, biologists say.


Making Climate Forecasts More Useful to Farmers

Making Climate Forecasts More Useful to Farmers

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate forecasts are becoming more useful to farmers and ranchers, thanks to research by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their cooperators.


Daily temperature shifts may alter malaria patterns

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Daytime temperature fluctuations greatly alter the incubation period of malaria parasites in mosquitoes and alter transmission rates of the disease. Consideration of these fluctuations reveals a more accurate picture of climate ...


Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future

Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future

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created May 10, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

A new study by NASA scientists suggests that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s.


Drosophila melanogaster

Siestas Among the Drosophilae

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Isaac Edery is concerned with biological clocks, internal mechanisms that enable virtually all plants and animals to behave in rhythmic biological cycles known as circadian rhythms.


Human activities contribute to California's global warming

Human activities contribute to California's global warming

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created Jan 18, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.



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