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El Nino can last until the end of the first quarter of 2007
El Nino formed in the tropical Pacific Ocean with moderate intensity and will continue to cause weather fluctuations at least until the end of the first quarter of 2007,…
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People make storms more violent
The greenhouse gases emitted by humans in the past few decades increase the temperature of the sea water, which directly increases the intensity of storms. A series of r…
Environment
Climate change threatens cultural heritage
Rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, floods and other earth-related greenhouse disasters are threatening the world's cultural assets, according to the Environme…
Environment
The Amazon River has changed the flow
The Amazon River, the largest river in the world, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opposite to the current flow. A recent study has found in sed…
Environment
The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!
According to a French study published in Nature that confirms a controversial hypothesis for 30 years: 2 to 3.5 billion years ago, the average temperature in the oceans…
Environment
Earth's temperature tends to heat up unevenly
The average temperature of the ocean has decreased slightly between 2003 and 2005, after more than a decade of warming, the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO…
Environment
UNEP: The ocean is being turned into a 'landfill'.
In a public report at La Hey (Netherlands) on October 4, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) warned of rapid urbanization in coastal areas plus dumping of wast…
Environment
Sahara desert sand can control storms in the Atlantic Ocean
There is a surprising link between the frequency of Atlantic storms and the sand from the Sahara: desert sand can reduce the frequency of occurrence as well as affect th…
Environment
El Nino phenomenon appeared again silently
Data transmitted from Earth-based satellites have confirmed this: El Nino climate phenomenon has reappeared since September. However, this cyclical climate phenomenon oc…
Environment
The Earth's climate will get cold
Despite impressive impressions proving the level of ice melting in the Arctic Ocean published, astronomers in Saint-Petesbourg (Russia) claim that in the next few decade…
Environment
El Nino reappears in the Pacific Ocean
Conditions forming El Nino phenomenon are accumulating and developing in the tropical region of the Pacific. According to the
Environment
El Nino re-exported - storms will end soon?
World meteorological agencies announced that El Nino is likely to re-export later this year in the Pacific and forecast that the rainy season may end soon.
Environment
A new ocean is forming
Scientists predict that within a few million years a gap of about 60km in the Afar valley (belonging to Ethiopia and Eritrea) could become a new ocean in Africa.
Environment
NASA studies the formation of major storms
The US aerospace agency (NASA) will conduct tomorrow, August 15, a program to study meteorological changes in Africa, considered to be the cause of major storms, in whic…
Environment
China developed a new tsunami warning system
After the Asian tsunami in 2004 and the recent tsunami in Indonesia, China said it would develop a new tsunami warning system that helps protect residents of coastal are…