News tagged with storm events
Bleak future for Bay area tidal marshes?
A new study, led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO), projects a bleak future for San Francisco Bay's tidal marshes under high-end sea-level rise scenarios that are increasingly likely. PRBO and colleagues found that in the ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Climate: which nations, cities most at risk?
A third of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change but rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a report released Wednesday.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite sees 3 in 1: Tropical storms Nate, Lee, fires
Tropical Storm Nate is perched to make landfall in Mexico this weekend, and warnings are in effect. Nate is one of three major weather events around the Gulf of Mexico today, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Changes in weather patterns creating more severe storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University climate expert attributes the increase in the number and severity of tornadoes and severe storms in 2011 to a change in weather patterns.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies on Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of Colorado Boulder ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Large sponges may be reattached to coral reefs
April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally applied to the restoration of oth ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm (Video)
On March 14, 2008, a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta, its 130 mile-per-hour winds ripping holes in the roof of the Georgia Dome, blowing out office windows and trashing parts of Centennial Olympic Park. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Floods to become commonplace by 2080
Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 08, 2009 |
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