News tagged with rainy weather

La Nina going away, but too late for Texas drought

(AP) -- Federal weather forecasters say the La Nina weather phenomenon that contributed to the southwestern U.S. drought is winding down.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Common eastern bumblebee can boost pumpkin yields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Each grinning jack-o'-lantern starts with yellow pollen grains, ferried from a male to a female pumpkin flower by bees. Honeybee populations are in decline, but Cornell entomologist Brian ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard

(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

NASA waits for dry weather to bring shuttle home

(AP) -- NASA is waiting for a break in Florida's rainy weather so the space shuttle Atlantis can return home on schedule.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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A better picture of clouds

Some of us look at clouds and see animal shapes. Scientists are looking beyond. For the first time, a team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used actual measurements of clouds and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops shown in new study

The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study on using cover crops between rows of corn reveals that higher yields – by as much as 10 percent – are possible using the ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Researchers build computer model that explains lakes and storms on Saturn's moon Titan

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about 90 kelvins) ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sky-watchers get rare treat: total lunar eclipse

Moon watchers in the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe were treated Saturday to a rare celestial phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Nighttime images help track disease from the sky

(Medical Xpress) -- Normally used to spot where people live, satellite images of nighttime lights can help keep tabs on the diseases festering among them, too, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mapping underground water sources for drip irrigation could transform African village life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rural farmers in sub-Saharan Africa live under risky conditions. Many grow low-value cereal crops that depend on a short rainy season, a practice that traps them in poverty and hunger.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light

The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Dead again? Lake Erie in trouble

Tributaries of Lake Erie aren't catching fire as they did a half-century ago.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Aquarius yields NASA's first global map of ocean salinity

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tropical Storm Maria weakens near Caribbean

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Maria weakened slightly as it neared Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, but no further change in strength is expected, forecasters said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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