A pocket of ancient water discovered in the depths of a Canadian goldmine may provide vital clues about the way life evolved on Earth. Scientists from universities in Britain and Canada say that the water is at least 1.5 billion…
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Forest fires are a devastating natural event. They can happen anywhere that there is enough heat and fuel to burn and can be started by a variety of things. Sometimes a forest fire can be started as simply as a lit…
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No one is sure exactly how a multiple-vortex tornado forms, because it doesn’t last very long and is very difficult to see clearly during its life. Researchers have a number of theories about it that include vortex breakdown or possibly…
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In the last several years, scientists studying great whites in False Bay, South Africa, have confirmed that this apex predator switches his feeding patterns from deeper waters around Seal Island to locales closer to shore as summer approaches. “It has…
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Like a giant, brass-knuckled fist, Hurricane Hugo smashed its way from the Leeward Islands in the West Indies and pummeled a path to the Carolinas in 1989. Hugo made landfall in the Isle of Palms, South Carolina as a terrifying…
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Weather manipulation research has received some $2bn of investment over the past two decades. It is expected that within the next five to ten years these technologies will begin to be deployed to combat drought, with the further potential to…
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Hurricane Hugo was an infrequent but deadly type of hurricane that is known as a Cape Verde-type hurricane. This rare type of hurricane was first detected as a tropical wave developing on the coast of Africa. The formation of hurricane Hugo…
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Cold air damming affects weather patterns near mountain ranges by creating colder temperatures and more precipitation than normal. Major areas affected by cold air damming include the Appalachian Mountains in the east, the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades in the west….
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Geoengineering comprises the technologies that intend to reduce global temperatures and counteract anthropogenic (human made) climate change. The technologies vary in complexity from planting trees for carbon capture to placing mirrors in space in order to reflect sunlight back into…
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Tornados and Hurricanes: People assume there are no authentic differences between Hurricanes and Tornados. On the contrary, there is a major distinction among the two super storms. One storm is born off the shores of southern Africa where the other…
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