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UH SOEST and Hawai'i DAR provide new understanding of rare white shark movement around Hawai'i

The paper, titled “Occurrence of White Sharks in Hawaiian Waters”, was written by Kevin Weng of the University of Hawai'i – Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth…

Black carbon – element of uncertainty in climate prediction

In recent months climate scientists have been surprised by a scientific publication. An American research team came to the conclusion that soot’s contribution…

How life came ashore

If scientists had to bet on which species of fish still alive today is the closest relative of the fish that first left the water and crawled onto land some…

NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves

As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing bow wave or bow shock, much like that in front of a moving ship. Just in front of this bow wave…

Study reveals seasonal patterns of tropical rainfall changes from global warming

The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the tropics, according to the study of…

Recent Climate, Glacier Changes in Antarctica at the 'Upper Bound' of Normal

New ice core research suggests that, while the changes are dramatic, they cannot be attributed with confidence to human-caused global warming, said Eric Steig,…

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