Study: Tropical rain band shifting north
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 17:28
in Earth & Climate
Earth's most prominent rain band, near the equator, has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile a year for three centuries, likely because of a warming world, scientists say.
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