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Assessing El Niño's Impact on Fisheries and Aquaculture Around the World
New report presents the main regional consequences caused by the five types of the climate pattern.
Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space With Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
Thirty years ago, on April 24, 1990, Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew. Deployed into Earth orbit a day later, the telescope opened a new eye onto the cosmos that has been transformative for our civilization.
What Scares You Most About Climate Change?
To mark Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Gazette contacted experts on climate change, the environment, and sustainability to ask them about their global-warming fears. Here are their answers.
Assessing El Niño's Impact On Fisheries And Aquaculture Around The World
While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security, not enough is known about El Niño’s impact on the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, even though its name was given in the 1600s by fishers off the coast of Peru.
Big Data Reveals We're Running out of Time to Save Environment and Ourselves
The use of big data can help scientists’ chart not only the degradation of the environment but can be part of the solution to achieve sustainability, according to a new commentary paper.