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Washington, September 12 (ANI): Reports indicate that sea levels rose as much as 2 feet (60 centimeters) higher than predicted this summer along the US East Coast, surprising scientists who forecast such periodic fluctuations.

According to National Geographic News, though the immediate cause of the unexpected rise has now been solved, the underlying reason remains [...]

Washington, September 11 (ANI): A research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a US Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by a German submarine during World War II.

Six sailors [...]

Washington, September 11 (ANI): A new research has determined that killer whales have to raise their voices to be heard over ship noise, and the effort may be wearing the whales out as they try to find food amid dwindling numbers of salmon.

According to a report in National [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A new report by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has determined that human impacts and environmental factors are changing the northwest Atlantic ecosystem.

According to the report, fish in US waters [...]

El Nino – El Nino 2009 – El Nini Effect – El Nino conditions return to affect weather
WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino is back.
Government scientists said Thursday that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which can affect weather around the world, has returned.
The Pacific had been in what is called a [...]

Washington, June 28 (ANI): The latest Geo-stationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space Saturday after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The GOES-O spacecraft lifted off at 6:51 p.m. EDT on a Delta IV rocket.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-O satellite [...]

Washington, June 25 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, US, has determined that global warming may mean dry autumns and winters that may lead to fewer tornadoes in the spring.

The study pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area’s fall and winter may affect tornado [...]

Washington, May 21 (IANS) Scientists have documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales with the help of underwater hydrophones that can pick up sounds from hundreds of kilometres away.
The discovery is particularly important because it is in an area where these whales were thought to be extinct and one that may be opened [...]

Washington, May 21 (ANI): A team of scientists, using a system of underwater hydrophones that can record sounds from hundreds of miles away, has documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct.

The scientists are from the Oregon State University (OSU) and the National Oceanic and [...]

London, May 11 (ANI): A panel of international experts has predicted that the Sun’s new solar cycle, which is thought to have begun in December 2008, will be the weakest since 1928.

Solar activity waxes and wanes every 11 years.

Cycles can vary widely in intensity, and there is no foolproof way to predict how the [...]

New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): United Nation’s climate panel chief and Nobel laureate R K Pachauri has said melting glaciers could adversely impact river systems in India.

“If you look at the impact of melting of glaciers, it is not only reduction in supply in the river system but this will also have an impact on [...]

Washington, March 27 (ANI): A new study has determined that the recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years.

Since 1980, the tropical North Atlantic has been warming by an average of a quarter-degree Celsius (a half-degree Fahrenheit) per decade.

“Though [...]

Washington – The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday issued a tsunami warning for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji among other Pacific islands.
The warning came after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake was reported 10 kilometres deep in the Tonga islands region.
“Sea level readings confirm that a tsunami was generated. This tsunami may have been destructive [...]

Washington, March 13 (ANI): A new research has suggested that natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age, and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds.

The research was conducted by a team [...]

Washington, March 12 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth.

The study was conducted by researchers at the [...]

Washington, March 3 (ANI): A new study has determined that global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.

Earth’s climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have [...]

Washington, Feb 24 (ANI): In a new analysis, climatologists have found that the year 2008 was Earth’s coolest year since 2000.

The analysis, by climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, also showed that 2008 is the ninth warmest year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880.

The [...]

Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): A new study by NASA scientists has determined that an early warning system, more than a decade in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever virus in northeast Africa.

Rift Valley fever is unique in that its [...]