Science news articles about 'nina'

  • Larger Pacific Climate Event Helps Current La Nina Linger

    Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Ninas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
  • La Nina Persists

    The tropical Pacific Ocean remains in the grips of a cool La Nina, as shown by new data of sea-level heights from mid-October of 2007, collected by the U.S-French Jason altimetric satellite
  • La Nina Easing, May Reduce Hurricane Risk

    La Nina, the cooling of water in the tropical Pacific ocean, is fizzling out. This may be beneficial to the East and Gulf coasts with hurricane season underway.
  • A Conversation With Nina V. Fedoroff: An Advocate for Science Diplomacy

    Nina V. Fedoroff is science adviser to the secretary of state and contends that genetically modified foods help the environment.
  • Global Temperature Report - April 2008

    ... La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event continues to push temperatures in the tropics downward, ... troposphere chilling for the second consecutive month to its coolest temperature since the La Nina of 1989. ...
  • U.Va. Neurologists Participating in New Initiative to Improve Stroke Care in Rural Communities

    Dr. Nina Solenski, a neurologist in the Primary Stroke Center at the University of Virginia Health System, has been busy learning to drive. Instead of a car, she's learning how to maneuver a robot ...
  • Global Temperature Report - May 2008

    Global average temperatures and temperatures in the tropics continued to fall in May, driven by a La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event. Monthly global temperature report shows the Tropics recorded the ...
  • World weather expert says El Nino, La Nina outlook mild

    The World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday that 2008 was proving a year of respite from natural climatic phenomena identified by scientists as causing havoc with weather patterns.
  • ESA satellite assesses damage of Norway's largest fire

    ... easy it was to detect the affected area in the image and to learn how extensive the damages are," Nina Soleng said. "We sent the images to the County Director of Forestry (Fylkesskogmester) of Aust- ...
  • Why can`t I learn a new language?

    Adults, even the brightest ones, often struggle with learning new languages. Dr Nina Kazanina in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bristol explains why.
  • Let the cat keep chasing the mouse

    ... corridors On behalf of the League for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), Nina Klar has therefore provided results on potential corridors, with which these forest areas could be ...
  • Global Temperature Report - July 2008

    Shrinking regions of cooler than normal temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean during July suggest the La Nina cooling event is fading.
  • JCI online early table of contents: Sept. 5, 2008

    ... cells generate cells with immunosuppressive properties Nina Bhardwaj and colleagues, at New York University, ... -dioxygenase–dependent mechanism AUTHOR CONTACT: Nina Bhardwaj New York University, New ...
  • Global Temperature Report - Sept. 2008

    The La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event continues to weaken, according to Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Temperatures in the ...
  • Can genetic information be controlled by light?

    ... a billionth of a second. Commenting on the conclusions from her research, Nina Schwalb says: "We have investigated the photophysical properties and have found that different base combinations have ...

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