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Warmer Climate Fosters Ever More Frequent Tropical Cyclones

The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has recently witnessed the publication of a new study stating that a warmer global climate is bound to up both the frequency and the intensity of tropical storms. Researchers are first and foremost concerned about tropical cyclones, seeing how the extreme ...

16 October 2012
05:17 GMT

Air Pollution Makes the Cyclones Twice as Powerful

Researchers managed to find a link between the high level of pollution and the increased power of cyclones, while comparing the natural events which have occurred in the period 1979-1996 with the ones which have become visible from 1997 to 2010. According to their findings, decreased air quality made the cyclones t...

11 November 2011
05:34 GMT

Arabian Sea Cyclone Strength Boosted by Pollution

The increase in average cyclone intensity that has been observed over the Arabian Sea in the past few years has been linked to sharp increases in pollution levels in the region. A study detailing the connection is published in this week's issue of the esteemed scientific journal Nature. Climate scientists say ...

3 November 2011
04:28 GMT

Rainfall Record for Northern Australia Found in Coral Reefs

A team of investigators was recently able to determine that long-term weather patterns for northern Australia can be derived from analysis work conducted on coral reef growth rings. The discovery also brings some bad news – the torrential rains that the country was subjected to during these past few weeks are n...

10 February 2011
05:38 GMT

NASA Develops New Cyclone-Forecasting Tool

Cyclones, the enormous atmospheric movements centered around a very low pressure center, and which are able to generate severe thunderstorms and flooding rain, kill the most people in areas of the Indian Ocean. Statistics show that 15 percent of the cyclones occur in the region, but that they are nonetheless responsi...

14 April 2009
14:01 GMT


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