Science news articles about 'equatorial region'

  • Leatherback turtles' newly discovered migration route may be roadmap to salvation

    ... a predictable way from the nesting beach through the equatorial region from roughly February through April, ... place is the South Pacific Gyre, a vast region considered a relative desert among the world' ...
  • 'Missing' water on Mars may be hidden in vast glaciers

    ... of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had expected, according to a report today in the journal Science.
  • Getting warmer? Prehistoric climate can help forecast future changes

    ... (CO2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases on Earth's temperature. New data allow for more accurate predictions ...
  • Jupiter's rocky core bigger and icier, according to new simulation

    ... a series of concentric cylinders rotating around the planet's spin axis, with the outer cylinders – the equatorial regions – rotating faster than the inner cylinders. This is identical to the sun's ...
  • Flora not flourishing in world's hotspots

    ... human activity was not the primary cause of the increasing risk of extinction in the equatorial regions. "Our findings differ from previous ones in that factors tightly linked to human activity ...
  • Half of world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100

    ... for the last decade. Temperature increases from climate change are expected to be less in equatorial regions than at higher latitudes, but because average temperatures in the tropics today are much ...
  • Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features

    ... suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If so, this would provide another jigsaw piece to be fitted ...
  • Ice, Polar Bears & Penguins

    ... a planet-wide system, but air is warmed much more in the equatorial regions and cooled more in the polar regions.  (Please note: this is a deliberate oversimplification for purposes of explanation.) ...
  • AGU journal highlights -- April 6, 2009

    ... actually occur, the circulation pattern changes such that the poleward heat transport out of the equatorial region decreases. Title: Impact of the latitudinal distribution of tropical cyclones on ...
  • Equatorial region known for massive storms

    It's the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms, a nearly continuous band of colliding weather systems near the equator where the Air France jet vanished in the night.
  • Magnetic field on bright star Vega

    ... and generates temperature variations of more than 1000 degrees Celsius between the polar (warmer) and the equatorial regions of its surface. Vega is also surrounded by a disk of dust, in which the ...
  • NOAA: El Nino developing in Pacific

    WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Rising sea surface temperatures in the equatorial region of the eastern Pacific show an El Nino is developing, U.S. weather forecasters say.
  • Mars Express zeros in on erosion features

    ... suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If so, this would provide another jigsaw piece to be fitted ...
  • Caltech scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan

    ... , vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange atmosphere that looks like ... first time. For a while now, people have speculated that the equatorial regions are simply too dry to ever ...

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