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Gravity between Mars and Earth drives climate and currents
EarthSky· 4 days agoRecent research has revealed new evidence for a 2.4-million-year cycle – called an orbital resonance...
Get ready for some of the wildest weather ever this summer
Quartz· 1 day agoOn May 23, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the...
Why Melting Ice Doesn’t Necessarily Cool Warming Oceans
Forbes· 6 days agoLet’s begin by defining ice sheets, sea ice, and glaciers. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website...
What is wind shear? An atmospheric scientist explains how it can disrupt air travel and tear apart...
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoWind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. With hurricanes, the focus is usually on vertical wind shear, or how wind changes in speed and direction with height.
Europe’s air quality suffers from pollutants born beyond its borders, study says
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoA study published Monday by the journal Nature Medicine highlights that point: The majority of toxic...
Weather mailbag: We’re talking El Niño, tornadoes and thunderstorms - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoThere really isn’t any other place in the world that has as set up like this to produce such strong...
‘An intergenerational crime against humanity’: what will it take for political leaders to start...
The Conversation· 1 day agoIn February 2024, I attended the annual conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society – the peak group for scientists working in all branches of weather and climate research ...
Complex weather pattern to bring notable early-season heatwave across West, including parts of...
California Weather Blog· 4 days agoAnother interesting aspect to this sequence of events–i.e., the occurrence of a notably strong and atypical (for June) atmospheric river event in the PacNW/SW Canada followed immediately by ...
Space: China Is Closely Watching
Strategy Page· 1 day agoNovember 20, 2021: Earlier in the month, China put three more Yaogan Weixing (Remote Sensing) satellites into LEO (low, under 600 kilometers, earth orbit ...
Early Canadian wildfire season prompts fears of repeat of 2023 record-breaking year
World Socialist Web Site· 5 days agoCanada’s 2024 wildfire season has started early, prompting fears that the country could see a return of the devastating nationwide fires of last year that forced thousands to flee their homes ...