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La Nina Jeopardizes Crops Worldwide

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
06:37 GMT

Global Warming Makes Plants Move Downhill, Not Up

A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, have conducted a study that contradicts the popular belief that plants move uphill as the temperatures become warmer.Most forecasts say that climate change will determine many plants and animal species to migrate and eventually become extinct.These predi...

21 January 2011
05:51 GMT

Odd Climate Link Found Between Antarctica and Australia

Following decades of ongoing studies, climate researchers have discovered a very peculiar link between the southwestern corner of Australia and a region of eastern Antarctica. It would appear that a negative correlation exists between them, in the sense that, when the Australian land is battered with drought and lack...

9 February 2010
06:06 GMT

Climate Change Could Stop Yellowstone Geyser Eruption

A new study conducted between 1998 and 2006 indicates that the eruption patterns of geysers in the Yellowstone National Park, US are slowing down and could even stop as a result of global warming. Temperature readings performed on five of the geysers in the famous national park show that two of the best known of them...

10 July 2008
04:46 GMT

How to Predict Hurricanes

If the temperature and the pressure of the air in the Earth's atmosphere would be uniformly distributed on the surface of the planet, there would be no movement of the air. However, the reality is somehow different. The excessive heating of some areas on the surface leads to an uneven distribution of the tempera...

31 March 2008
07:38 GMT


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