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Study: Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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In one of the first comparisons of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that wetlands in tropical areas are able to absorb and hold onto about 80 percent more carbon than can wetlands in temperate zones.
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Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious wetlands worldwide as farmers and developers ...
Aqua satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.
Novel carbon-trading scheme could stop large-scale extinctions
Dec 03, 2009 |
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A new strategy for saving tropical forest species was published in the leading journal Science on the eve of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, by a team of researchers, includ ...
A sudden Tropical Storm Grace explodes in far Eastern Atlantic
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean may have escaped the notice of most when it formed just before midnight last night so far north and east in the Atlantic, away from where forecasters usually ...
The Philippines may finally get a break from Tropical Depression Parma
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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The Philippines can't seem to get rid of what is now a deadly and annoying Tropical Depression Parma, but forecasters are now providing hope.
QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on Tropical Storm Anja
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two instruments ...
Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...
It's a boy? Tropical Depression 18-E forms in the Eastern North Pacific
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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At 11 a.m. EDT on October first, the eighteenth tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was born. He's a little guy, but is likely going to grow up to be a tropical storm and get the name ...
Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.
Baja watching Tropical Storm Patricia in the latest GOES-11 satellite movie
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of ...
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