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Texas A&M study proves pollution from China And India affecting world's weather

Renyi Zhang, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M and lead author of the paper, says the study is the first of its kind that provides indisputable…

While global warming is fatal to many reefs, some corals are able to fight the heat

However, she noted in presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, Feb. 18, Caribbean…

Sediment wedge key to glacial environmental stability

“Sediment beneath ice shelves helps stabilize ice sheets against retreat in response to rise in relative sea level of at least several meters,” says Richard…

NASA Data Links Indonesian Wildfire Flare-Up to Recent El Nino

El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, which often brings significant shifts in global weather patterns.As…

Mysteries of the Atlantic

Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth's crust appears to be missing….

Iron in Northwest rivers fuels phytoplankton, fish populations

The study, by three Oregon State University oceanographers, was just published by the American Geophysical Union in its journal, Geophysical Research Letters.West coast scientists have observed that ocean chlorophyll levels, phytoplankton production and fish populations generally increase in the Pacific Ocean the farther north you go (from southern California to northern Washington). No one has a definitive explanation for the increase, the OSU scientists say, though some researchers have suspected river runoff may play a role. That theory has generally been discounted, they added, because river flows are low in the summer when phytoplankton blooms occur….

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