Scientists found warming conditions in the Pacific (El Niño) resulted in low pressure anomalies in the Gulf of Mexico, and high pressure anomalies that extended into the Caribbean Sea from the tropical Atlantic.
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We Need to Change Our Systems to Ensure a Sustainable World
While composting and taking the bus are helpful, we need to change the very systems we live and work in to truly address climate change.
Study: Ice Flow Is More Sensitive to Stress Than Previously Thought
The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a decades-old equation used to describe ice flow.
Relocating Farmland Could Turn Back Clock Twenty Years on Carbon Emissions
The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western US, and below the Sahara desert.
Heat Stress for Cattle May Cost Billions by Century’s End
Looming climate change may be economically hard for low-income cattle farmers in poor countries due to increasing heat stress on the animals.
Hawaiian Corals Show Surprising Resilience to Warming Oceans
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change.


