Climate scientists warn that the new parameters of the La Nina atmospheric pattern could have significant repercussions on the world's crops, including corn, coffee, wheat and rice. Crops in the American Midwest could decline significantly this summer, due to the phenomenon, and the state of Illinois could be pl... |
30 January 2011
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Given the large number of flooding events that have taken place recently, and that are still unfolding in some ares of the world, climatologists are seeking to determine what caused such natural disasters. Their conclusion was that the intensification of La Nina was responsible for the devastation.La Nina is an atmos... |
18 January 2011
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The NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) today released its annual Winter Outlook, a document that estimates how the cold season will be felt throughout the United States until February 2011.The paper shows that, again, the country will be subjected to a winter of extremes, in the sense that areas usually prone to ex... |
21 October 2010
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El Nino and La Nina are two atmospheric phenomena in the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and represent global atmosphere-ocean connections. They occur periodically, and cause significant temperature fluctuations in the oceanic waters. Recently, meteorologists estimated that El Nino could begin its development the next... |
5 June 2009
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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change is now severely affecting the population of birds around the world. The IUCN meeting taking place this week in Bonn, Germany, has updated the catalogue of 1226 species of threatened birds in the Red List of endangered bird species rel... |
20 May 2008
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