Tag: Climate
August 11, 2020
Climate Change Projected to Increase Seasonal East African Rainfall
According to research led by The University of Texas at Austin, seasonal rainfall is expected to rise significantly in East Africa over the next few…
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Cook Honored by American Meteorological Society
Kerry Cook, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Geological Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Simpson Tropical Meteorology Research Award from…
Read MoreJuly 16, 2020
Divining Monsoon Rainfall Months in Advance with Satellites and Simulations
Researchers affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin have developed a strategy that more accurately predicts seasonal rainfall over the Asian monsoon region and…
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Climate Change Could Reawaken Indian Ocean El Niño
Global warming is approaching a tipping point that during this century could reawaken an ancient climate pattern similar to El Niño in the Indian Ocean,…
Read MoreOctober 10, 2018
Newly Described Fossils Could Help Reveal Why Some Dinos Got So Big
By the time non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, plant-eating sauropods like the Brontosaurus had grown to gargantuan proportions. Weighing in as much as 100 tons, the…
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Mammal Forerunner that Reproduced Like a Reptile Sheds Light on Brain Evolution
Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters of offspring. A newly described…
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Research Finds Link Between Rainfall and Ocean Circulation in Past and Present
Research conducted at The University of Texas at Austin has found that changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean influence rainfall in the Western…
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New Research Could Predict La Niña Drought Years in Advance
Two new studies from The University of Texas at Austin have significantly improved scientists’ ability to predict the strength and duration of droughts caused by…
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Algae Fortifies Coral Reefs in Past and Present
The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of red algae that…
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After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact, Life Re-Emerged Quickly
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Life came back surprisingly quickly to the site of the impact that killed the dinosaurs, new research found. When a 6-mile (10…
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