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Sea Level Spiked for Two Years Along Northeastern North America

The team was the first to document that the extreme increase in sea level lasted two years, not just a few months.

NASA satellite reveals how much Saharan dust feeds Amazon's plants

The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon rain forest is a dense green mass of…

A question of light: Ocean acidification slows algae growth in the Southern Ocean

In so doing, Dr Clara Hoppe and her team have overturned the widely held assumption that sinking pH values would stimulate the growth of these unicellular…

NASA-JAXA's TRMM satellite sees rapid intensification of category-5 Marcia

The TRMM satellite is managed by both NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The TRMM Precipitation Radar gives three-dimensional information about…

Moths Shed Light on How to Fool Enemy Sonar

The study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows luna moths spin their trailing hindtails as they fly, confusing the sonar…

The mystery of cosmic oceans and dunes

Simulations by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University indicate that Earth-like planets are more likely to be found orbiting…

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