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Rising sea level threatens the US coast
According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the US Atlantic coastline, which includes cities like New York and Boston, has risen four times fast…
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The Atlantic Ocean will have less typhoons in 2012
On March 5, at the annual Charleston (US) hurricane conference, US National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said there will not be a lot of heat-related typhoons thi…
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A new island can grow in the mid-Atlantic
The eruption of a volcano under the Atlantic Ocean could lead to the formation of a new island near Spain, scientists predict.
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Pull the ice from the North Pole to Africa
A group of French experts have successfully implemented a model of dragging a giant iceberg from the North Atlantic to northwest Africa, a realistic project that will he…
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Water in the Indian Ocean flows into the Atlantic Ocean
The study, published in the April 27 issue of the journal Nature, shows that the Indian ocean currents flowing into the Atlantic could increase from 1.4 to 4 million cub…
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Radioactive clouds have not yet entered Vietnam
In the Atlantic Ocean, radioactive clouds continue to spread east to Europe and North Africa.
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The Arctic Sea is the hottest 2,000 years
The ocean currents flowing from the North Atlantic to the Arctic are the hottest in over 2000 years, according to a new scientific study published.
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Huge landfill in the Atlantic Ocean
In July 2009, scientists were stunned to find a landfill of about 696,621 km2 in the Pacific Ocean.
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Why does the Pacific storm rarely attack the United States?
News about storms attacking the coast of Florida, Louisiana and many other southeastern states of the United States often appear on news items during the past summer ...
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Hurricanes are more and more frequent but with constant intensity
In a new study, scientists from Clemson University concluded that the number of storms in the Atlantic Gulf is increasing.
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El Nino changes may cause many storms to land
Normally, in the years of the El Niño phenomenon, there are fewer storms on the Atlantic than usual. However, a new study suggests that El Niño can morph into form and c…
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Drought lasts for centuries in North America
Stalagmites in the West Virginia cave have provided the most detailed geological record ever in the climate cycle in eastern North America over the past 7000 years.
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The greenhouse effect does not increase the number of storms
Many people believe that the warming of the Earth will increase the number of storms, but a recent study proves that it is not true, at least in the Atlantic.
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Dust storms from the Sahara desert cause an explosion of plankton in the East Atlantic Ocean
Scientists working on RRS Discovery are studying sand dust from the Sahara desert blown off the coast of Africa and causing an explosion of plankton in the eastern Atlan…
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When the Greenland ice melts ...
Ice in Greenland - a Danish autonomous province, between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean - is melting at a record rate this year, the highest since 1979 wh…