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Massive debris pile reveals risk of huge tsunamis in Hawaii

Scientists are reporting that a wall of water up to nine meters (30 feet) high surged onto Hawaiian shores about 500 years ago. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake off…

NASA's HS3 Mission Continues With Flights Over Hurricane Gonzalo

The WB-57 aircraft flew over Hurricane Gonzalo on Oct. 15 carrying two HS3 mission instruments called HIWRAP and HIRAD in addition to a new Office of Naval…

Major Hurricane Gonzalo Gives an "Eye-opening" Performance

A hurricane warning is in effect for Bermuda and that means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area, meaning the entire island.

New study shows the importance of jellyfish falls to deep-sea ecosystem

This week, researchers from University of Hawai'i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean's…

Microfossils reveal warm oceans had less oxygen, Syracuse geologists say

Researchers in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology—the study of tiny fossilized…

NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years

Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from NASA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934…

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