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New research on wind behavior in complex terrain, led by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy, will improve forecasts for wind energy firms by 15-25 percent, and improve wind forecasts for the entire country, scientists said.
NOAA Fishery Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker and a small fleet of unmanned, instrumented saildrones wrapped up nearly 5 months of research this week after crisscrossing waters off the West Coast in a landmark survey of species ranging from krill and anchovies to whales.
The new research documents how the North Atlantic communicates these extreme events to Antarctica, at the opposite side of the world.
Odds are rising that warm, dry conditions – the kind that can hurt crop yields, destabilize food prices and exacerbate wildfires – will strike multiple regions at once.
As demand for meat and dairy products increases across the world, much attention has landed on how livestock impact the environment, from land usage to greenhouse gas emissions.
Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth.
