Colossal undersea mountains, towering up to thousands of metres high, stir up deep sea currents: impacting how our ocean stores heat and carbon.
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Dampening the “Seeds” of Hurricanes
Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over Africa, making it more difficult for the predecessors of many Atlantic hurricanes to form, according to a new study published this month.
In the Grip of Global Heat
It’s only the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but Earth is already roasting.
Home Reef Volcano Grows
Dry land is ephemeral at Home Reef, a mid-ocean volcano in the central Tonga islands.
New Tool Enables Faster, More Cost-Effective Genome Editing of Traits to Improve Agriculture Sustainability
With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture sustainability, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, PhD, and with his collaborator, Veena Veena, PhD, director of the Plant Transformation Facility, was recently published in the scientific journal Nature.
Climate Change to Shift Tropical Rains Northward
A study led by a UC Riverside atmospheric scientist predicts that unchecked carbon emissions will force tropical rains to shift northward in the coming decades, which would profoundly impact agriculture and economies near the Earth's equator.
