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Ice storm tree damage offers chance to detect emerald ash borer
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wood debris from January ice storms in Southern Indiana and Kentucky provides an opportunity for emerald ash borer detection, said one Purdue University expert.
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CO2 may help some trees weather ice storms
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Aug 17, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say higher levels of carbon dioxide predicted for later this century might help reduce damage to some trees caused by ice storms.
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
Increasing Antarctic sea ice extent linked to the ozone hole
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Increased growth in Antarctic sea ice during the past 30 years is a result of changing weather patterns caused by the ozone hole according to new research published this week (Thurs 23 April 2009).
Cyclones spurt water into the stratosphere, feeding global warming
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming.
Research team draws 150-meter ice core from McCall Glacier
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Jul 11, 2008 |
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A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the region.
Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice ...
Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age
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Jun 19, 2008 |
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[B]Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say[/B] Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spi ...
NASA study finds rising Arctic storm activity sways sea ice, climate
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century, attributed to progressively warmer waters, directly provoked acceleration of the rate of arctic sea ice drift, long ...
NASA to Fly Viking Into Storms to Improve Aviation Safety
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Feb 11, 2008 |
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The S-3B Viking was built to take off and land on carrier ships, fly into enemy territory and take out threatening submarines. It's rugged, fast and powerful, but its fighting days are numbered.
Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend. As Mirinae has moved west, NASA's infrared and microwave satellite imagery ...
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