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West African droughts are the norm, not an anomaly

A new study of lake sediments in Ghana suggests that severe droughts lasting several decades, even centuries, were the norm in West Africa over the past 3,000…

Mangroves save lives in storms, study of 1999 super cyclone finds

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delhi and Duke University, analyzed deaths in 409 villages in the poor, mostly rural Kendrapada…

NASA experiment stirs up hope for forecasting deadliest cyclones

About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the…

Biosphere 2 experiment shows how fast heat could kill drought-stressed trees

Their study is the first to isolate the impact of just temperature on tree mortality during drought. The temperature effect is usually confounded by varying…

Mathematics and Climate Change

In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally…

Aerosols may drive a significant portion of arctic warming

Emitted by natural and human sources, aerosols can directly influence climate by reflecting or absorbing the sun's radiation. The small particles also affect…

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