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Forecasting The El Nino-Driven Ebb And Flow Of A Rogue Mosquito
August 14, 1998 As goes El Nino, so goes Aedes aegypti. Or that, at least, is what some public health officials fear, that as climate events such as El Nino become more pronounced, the range and prevalence of a ... > full story -
Open-Air Experiment Shows High CO2 Boosts Tree Growth
August 14, 1998 The first year's results from a Duke University research facility that exposes open-air forests to high carbon dioxide levels suggest that Southeastern forest trees could grow up to 12 percent ... > full story -
Duke Studies Show U.S. Central Plains Vulnerable To Global Warming
August 14, 1998 By analyzing how the northern U.S. Central Plains changed between grassland and forest due to past climate changes, Duke University ecologists have offered further evidence that the region will ... > full story -
Massive Ocean Current May Provide Clues To Global Warming
August 14, 1998 Scientists aboard the world's largest scientific drill ship, the JOIDES Resolution, will soon study a cold-water current that today is 100 times the size of the mighty Amazon River. ... > full story -
Boulder Scientists Involved In Effort To Study Arctic Warming
July 29, 1998 CU-Boulder researchers are participating in a major international field experiment to understand climate change trends in the Arctic and whether the Arctic Ocean ice pack is thinning as fast as ... > full story -
Irrigation Along Front Range Cooling Mountains And Plains; Extremes In Weather, More Severe Storms, Fire Danger Could Result
July 23, 1998 Human activities such as agriculture and landscaping along Colorado's northern Front Range are changing temperatures, river runoff and tree-distribution patterns in Rocky Mountain National Park ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Sheds New Light On The La Niña Phenomenon
July 20, 1998 Research scientists using data from the recently launched Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, a joint U.S/Japanese mission, are shedding new light on the phenomenon known as La ... > full story -
High On Carbon Dioxide, Crops Of Tomorrow May Yield More Grain
July 15, 1998 Researchers at The University of Arizona in Tucson are planning to cultivate a crop of the future this summer in Maricopa. The sorghum they will plant will not differ from the everyday variety. ... > full story -
Minuscule Ocean Plants Help Stabilize Earth's Atmosphere, Climate
July 15, 1998 Evolving into diverse forms over billions of years, tiny one-celled marine plants and bacteria have, up to now, successfully interacted with the changeable physics and chemistry of the land and sea ... > full story -
Extreme Conditions Ahead For Antarctic Voyagers
July 13, 1998 A major mid-winter scientific expedition will investigate why vast sections of ocean adjoining the Antarctic coast remain ice-free during the winter ... > full story -
New Window To The Deeps Found In Antarctica
June 23, 1998 Australian scientists have discovered a new 'window' to the deep sea - a source of dense, oxygen-rich Antarctic Bottom Water which breathes life into the world's ... > full story -
Radar System Aboard NASA DC-8 Aims To Unveil The Mysteries Of Cloud Structures
June 23, 1998 In an effort to better understand clouds and how they affect our environment, a NASA DC-8 aircraft is flying this week carrying an airborne radar system designed to study the structure of clouds, ... > full story
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