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Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers

“Studying the past can potentially inform our understanding of what the future may hold,” said Michael Mann, Professor of meteorology, Penn State. Mann…

CO2 Emissions Continue Significant Climb

These CO2 emissions increased at a rate of 3.4% per year from 2000 to 2008, in contrast to 1% each year in the previous decade, scientists from the Global…

NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super Typhoon

The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Nida on November…

Supervolcano eruption — in Sumatra — deforested India 73,000 years ago

The volcano ejected an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere, leaving a crater (now the world's largest volcanic lake) that is 100…

Aquatic Creatures Mix Ocean Water

More than 60 years ago, oceanographers predicted that the effect of swimming animals could be profound. Accounting for this effort has proven difficult,…

New Tsunami Education Web Site Developed by Oceanographers

“Tsunamis can neither be prevented nor precisely predicted yet,” says site initiator Dr. Jian Lin, a WHOI geologist actively involved in tsunami research and a…

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