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Climate is the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region. These are often broken down as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
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MAR 30, 2015Earth & The Environment
A new all-time temperature record for an entire continent is a rare event. But that may have happened for the continent ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 29, 2015Earth & The Environment
Termites might not top the list of humanity's favorite insects, but new research suggests that their large dirt mounds a ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Giant pandas turn out to be a lot more social - and flirtatious - than anyone had ever imagined, according to new resear ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 26, 2015Earth & The Environment
Termites are among the world's most destructive pests, causing more than a billion dollars in damage each year in the U. ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 26, 2015Earth & The Environment
A new study based in part on NASA satellite data has shown that an increase in large, well-organized thunderstorms is be ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 25, 2015Earth & The Environment
The winter ice covering the Arctic Ocean has reached its annual peak, but the extent of sea ice cover this winter is sma ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Winter storms can wreak havoc with our lives, but you probably don't think of them as bringing the sort of deadly menace ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 20, 2015Earth & The Environment
A small region in the southern Alaska coast saw an almost constant amount of rain, snow and glacial melting between 2003 ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 17, 2015Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 17, 2015Earth & The Environment
As reported in the Washington Post, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that in 2014, the economy grew ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 13, 2015Videos
UN affiliates review 2015 initiatives on energy, water, food security, sustainable development, and climate change.Written By: Will HectorMAR 13, 2015Earth & The Environment
Localized die-offs aren't even the most disruptive effect of depleted oxygen. "Changes in oxygen turn out to be really i ...Written By: Greg CruikshankMAR 11, 2015Plants & Animals
An Antarctic octopus gives literal meaning to the phrase "blue blood," as a new study finds the cephalopod has blue pigm ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 09, 2015Plants & Animals
New photographs of some 80 young elephants that are being held in a heavily guarded facility in Zimbabwe suggest that th ...Written By: Greg CruikshankMAR 02, 2015Microbiology
Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as s ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 25, 2015Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s ...Written By: Jennifer EllisFEB 23, 2015Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeNOV 13, 2014Earth & The Environment
Last year, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a Memorandum of Understanding o ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 25, 2014Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct. ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUL 01, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who gave a 65-minute keynote appearance at the 2014 BIO ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 25, 2014Earth & The Environment
CO2, which is generally accepted as being the leading cause of climate change, has been increasing in the atmosphere for ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUN 19, 2014Earth & The Environment
Understanding how clouds affect the climate is a difficult proposition. What controls the makeup of the low clouds that ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A new all-time temperature record for an entire continent is a rare event. But that may have happened for the continent
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 29, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Termites might not top the list of humanity's favorite insects, but new research suggests that their large dirt mounds a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Giant pandas turn out to be a lot more social - and flirtatious - than anyone had ever imagined, according to new resear
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 26, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Termites are among the world's most destructive pests, causing more than a billion dollars in damage each year in the U.
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 26, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A new study based in part on NASA satellite data has shown that an increase in large, well-organized thunderstorms is be
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 25, 2015
Earth & The Environment
The winter ice covering the Arctic Ocean has reached its annual peak, but the extent of sea ice cover this winter is sma
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 24, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Winter storms can wreak havoc with our lives, but you probably don't think of them as bringing the sort of deadly menace
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 20, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A small region in the southern Alaska coast saw an almost constant amount of rain, snow and glacial melting between 2003
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 17, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 17, 2015
Earth & The Environment
As reported in the Washington Post, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that in 2014, the economy grew ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 13, 2015
Videos
UN affiliates review 2015 initiatives on energy, water, food security, sustainable development, and climate change.
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 13, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Localized die-offs aren't even the most disruptive effect of depleted oxygen. "Changes in oxygen turn out to be really i
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
MAR 11, 2015
Plants & Animals
An Antarctic octopus gives literal meaning to the phrase "blue blood," as a new study finds the cephalopod has blue pigm
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 09, 2015
Plants & Animals
New photographs of some 80 young elephants that are being held in a heavily guarded facility in Zimbabwe suggest that th
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
MAR 02, 2015
Microbiology
Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as s
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 25, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
FEB 23, 2015
Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
NOV 13, 2014
Earth & The Environment
Last year, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a Memorandum of Understanding o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 30, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct.
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUL 01, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who gave a 65-minute keynote appearance at the 2014 BIO
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
CO2, which is generally accepted as being the leading cause of climate change, has been increasing in the atmosphere for
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUN 19, 2014
Earth & The Environment
Understanding how clouds affect the climate is a difficult proposition. What controls the makeup of the low clouds that
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider