A research team led by Prof. Wu Qingbai from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified important non-temperature environmental factors contributing ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2025
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A new study from researchers from the Faculty of Science at Charles University in the Czech Republic shows that microscopic communities of phytoplankton—key primary producers in aquatic ecosystems—can undergo dramatic ...
Ecology
Sep 10, 2025
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A new systematic study of the atmospheric conditions at the Muztagh Station in western China has revealed the site's unique suitability for optical observations. Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2025
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The atmosphere will become more turbulent in future decades as climate change makes the air less stable.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2025
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Wind alone does not account for all hurricane-related fatalities. Storm surge and rainfall do as well. Yet the current warning system—the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—measures a storm's strength solely by wind ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2025
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Vietnam's central belt was lashed by Typhoon Kajiki on Monday, with at least one person killed by deluges and gales howling more than 130 kilometers per hour, as tens of thousands of residents were evacuated from the path ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2025
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The Mediterranean Sea is particularly susceptible to marine heat waves—such as the record-breaking 2022 heat wave, which was characterized by anomalously high sea surface temperatures—due to the interplay of air-sea heat ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2025
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Wildfires release vast amounts of visible pollutants into the atmosphere that darken skies and push people indoors to avoid unhealthy air. But a near-invisible threat to public health associated with wildfires is ozone, the ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2025
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Storm Floris made landfall in northern parts of the UK on the morning of Monday August 4, 2025, bringing intense rainfall followed by severe winds throughout the afternoon. The Met Office issued an amber weather warning for ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2025
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Nor'easters are powerful and often destructive cyclonic storms that primarily impact the East Coast of North America. Some of these weather events have been so fierce that they earned the names "Perfect Storm," "Storm of ...
