Climate and Atmospheric Circulation
Storm history in Falmouth pond muck
A Falmouth teenager is spearheading a project aimed at examining core samples of a local freshwater pond in the hopes of pinpointing past storms that affected the region hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
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Summer of 2010 was hottest ever in Tri-Cities - so far
PETERSBURG - Everyone in the Tri-Cities already knows that the summer of 2010 was hot. How hot was it? According to figures from the National Weather Service, it was the hottest ever recorded in Central Virginia. And because it followed the warmest spr
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In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms (Reuters)
Reuters - The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days on a westward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.
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U.A.-Huntsville Part of Solar Probe Plus
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will team with scientists across the country on what is being described as the premier solar and heliophysics mission of the 21st century.
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Water Mission Reveals Insight Into Amazon Plume
by Staff Writers Paris, France (ESA) Sep 06, 2010 ESA's SMOS water mission has taken another step forward by demonstrating that it will lead to a better understanding of ocean circulation.
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UAHuntsville Will Team With America s Top Scientists For Defining Mission In Solar Physics
UAHuntsville to team with MITand UC-Berkeley, among others. Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will team with scientists across the country on what is being described as the premier solar and heliophysics mission of the 21st century.
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Comet impact did not cause mammoths to die out, say scientists
A mass extinction that caused the death of giant species of mammal including mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and giant beavers was not caused by a comet impact, scientists have concluded.
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The intellectual laziness of climate skepticism
Legal Eagle is worried about the effect of being “outed” as a climate skeptic after appearing on the recent episode of Insight featuring a discussion between a skeptical audience and the late Professor Stephen Schneider: Why would I be scared? When someone says the words “climate sceptic”, the instant stereotype which springs to most people’s [...]
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Earl loses tropical storm status after soaking Canada (AFP)
AFP - Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, US government forecasters announced, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in northeastern Canada.
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As a Hurricane, Earl Looked Like 'Magnificent Chaos' From Space (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The former
Hurricane Earl put on a striking weather display for astronauts on the
International Space Station, impressing the crew with its strength even as it
weakened to a tropical storm.
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Earl fizzles as it sweeps through Maritime Canada (Reuters)
Reuters - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.
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Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business (AP)
AP - In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.
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Tropical Storm Gaston may reform over Atlantic (Reuters)
Reuters - Tropical Storm Gaston could soon come swirling back to life over the central Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters said on Saturday.
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Earl put up its dukes, but withered into a blob of rain and wind (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - In the end, hurricane Earl proved to be just a dress rehearsal in storm-season preparedness.
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Most New Farmland Comes From Cutting Down Forests
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it ...
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Terraforming [Oscillator]
Life transforms environments, creating ecosystems where there was once only rocks. The evolution of photosynthetic bacteria billions of years ago created the atmosphere we have today, paving the way for the evolution of larger, oxygen-breathing organisms. We humans obviously transform our environment in countless ways, but can we also engineer barren environments to be hospitable to life? Can we ...
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Hurricane Earl makes landfall in Canada (AFP)
AFP - Earl roared ashore in Canada's Nova Scotia as a hurricane on Saturday, with winds of up to 120 kilometers (74 miles) per hour, drenching the province with rain, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.
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How Weather Reporters Stay Safe While Covering Hurricanes (Time.com)
Time.com - Hurricane Earl swept through the Eastern seaboard on Sept. 2, swirling up the North Carolina coast with winds well over 100 m.p.h. but never making landfall. TIME wants to know: How do reporters work in the middle of a hurricane?
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The nation's weather (AP)
AP - The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters.
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Weakened storm Earl moves toward Canada (AFP)
AFP - Tropical Storm Earl barreled toward Canada past the northeastern US state of Massachusetts early on Saturday after it weakened further and lost its hurricane status.
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