The El Niño phenomenon influences the weather in distant regions, as far away as the USA, India or the Mediterranean region.
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Guiding Conservation With Innovations and a Local Touch
As nature reels towards a hotter, drier, harsher future, new conservation tools – seed banks and frozen zoos, gene editing and assisted gene flow – hold promise to help struggling animal and plant populations.
A Burst of Activity at Mount Semeru
One year after Indonesia’s Mount Semeru unleashed a destructive eruption, the tallest and most active volcano on Java erupted again in early December 2022.
Hurricane’s Effects Killed Sturgeon in Apalachicola River
As hurricane Michael churned through the Gulf of Mexico to make landfall near Florida’s Apalachicola River in 2018, it left a sea of destruction in its wake.
The Southern Hemisphere is Stormier Than the Northern, and We Finally Know Why
For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere.
Fresh Understanding of Ice Age Frequency – Otago Study
A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led University of Otago researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica.