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Identify the Best Drought Index to Study Global Drylands
Drought is the world’s costliest natural disaster. To monitor, detect and quantify drought, many drought indices have been developed. Previous studies have shown that different indices can yield diverse results for a specific drought event, and a drought index can also give different results depending on the method used for the calculation of potential evapotranspiration…
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NASA Tracking Atlantic's Tropical Storm Rina
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite has been providing forecasters with imagery of Tropical Storm Rina as it moves north through the Central Atlantic Ocean.
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Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling study by European and U.S. researchers working on NASA's Cassini mission.The study, published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, helps resolve a question scientist have grappled with…
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With Climate Change, Mount Rainier Floral Communities Could 'Reassemble' With New Species Relationships, Interactions
Central to the field of ecology is the mantra that species do not exist in isolation: They assemble in communities — and within these communities, species interact. Predators hunt prey. Parasites exploit hosts. Pollinators find flowers.
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Study: Serving Water With School Lunches Could Prevent Child, Adult Obesity
Encouraging children to drink plain water with their school lunches could prevent more than half a million youths in the U.S. from becoming overweight or obese, and trim the medical costs and indirect societal costs associated with these problems by more than $13 billion, a new study suggests.
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Use of Glow Sticks in Traps Greatly Increases Amphibian Captures in Study
With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of Penn State researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expensive to capture adult salamanders and frogs.
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First Coast-To-Coast Land Motion Map of Scotland Derived from Satellite Radar Images
The first country-wide map of relative land motion has been created by a team at the University of Nottingham.
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Osaka University Chemists Unlock the Potential of Fluoroalkenes
One of the strongest chemical bonds in organic chemistry is formed between carbon and fluorine, giving unique properties to chemical compounds featuring this group. Pharmaceutical researchers are very interested in carbon-fluorine bond containing molecules because of the way they mimic certain behaviors of biological compounds. However, the strength of the carbon-fluorine bond makes it difficult…
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Why plants form sprouts in the dark
Exposed to light, plants turn green and form leaves. Not so in the dark. A signal responsible for this phenomenon has now been decoded.
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Cities Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far Beyond Their Urban Borders
Greenhouse gas emissions caused by urban households’ purchases of goods and services from beyond city limits are much bigger than previously thought. These upstream emissions may occur anywhere in the world and are roughly equal in size to the total emissions originating from a city’s own territory, a new study shows. This is not bad…