The culprit that caused unprecedented ferocity of storms Yagi and Helene
Faced with increasingly stronger storms, scientists have called for expanding the Saffir-Simpson scale to level 6 for storms with winds above 308km/h.
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Faced with increasingly stronger storms, scientists have called for expanding the Saffir-Simpson scale to level 6 for storms with winds above 308km/h.
US and Irish researchers have predicted a catastrophic increase in world ocean levels in the near future, based on geological measurements.
According to scientists, the ocean is home to 25 million organisms, but humans have only identified 1% of the total number of deep-sea creatures.
The hundreds of years of cold and dry weather may have caused the collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilizations in the 13th century BC.
Some waters have very little creature, at first glance like 'saltwater desert' but when thoroughly studied there are surprisingly high concentrations of microorganisms.
Many studies show that the number of tropical storms in the Americas and the Caribbean has increased since the 1980s. Similar trends also occur on the Atlantic and India…