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Oceanic Activity Explains Lack of Rainfall Understanding how oceans directly influence the forming of rain clouds above areas close to the “middle” of the Earth could provide scientists with novel ways of figuring out why rainfall has decreased so drastically over those regions in the past few years. Changes in the ocean's salinity have ...	25 October 2008 05:18 GMT

Hurricane Defenses Planned Scientists from Israel applied for a patent that they say could reduce the destructive power of hurricanes by injecting smoke in the lower layers of a forming storm. Theoretically, this could reduce the intensity of winds and undermine the integrity of the storm's inner "eye." Ever since Katrina struck New Orlea...	21 October 2008 02:34 GMT

Large Storms Clean Up Our Mess Scientists in Taiwan discovered that the massive floods huge storms generate are nature's way of getting rid of free carbon in plants and soils throughout several regions of the globe. Rainfall also plays a part in the process, but typhoons and hurricanes carry over 5000 tones of carbon to the ocean floors every...	20 October 2008 04:46 GMT

Global Warming Could Decrease Atlantic Hurricane Rates Well, the global warming seems to have brought us enough bad news in the past decades, so scientists think it's finally time to release some good news. Contrary to the common belief that global warming would result in an increase in hurricane rates, a computer model simulated by the US National Oceanic and Atmos...	19 May 2008 02:52 GMT

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