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Extreme weather to occur more often around Indian Ocean rim

2014-06-11 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Science: A double whammy of weird ocean behavior washed over the world in 1997. The Pacific Ocean had already succumbed to an exceptionally strong El Nio, and then the Indian Ocean was hit fiercely by El Nios close cousin: the so-called Indian Ocean Dipole. Surface waters off the coast of Indonesia cooled and the oceans predominant westerly winds reversed, leading to catastrophic weather. Fires raged across a drought-stricken Indonesia, and floods across east African nations killed thousands. Climate...

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Did the genesis of life occur just after the Big Bang, almost 14 billion years ago?

2014-02-05 15:07:05| Extremetech

After last night's Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham (evolution vs. creationism) debate, it seems fitting to start the day with new research from a Harvard astrophysicist that suggests the first life in the universe may have emerged just 10-20 million years after the Big Bang. This is a few billion years before most scientists believe that the universe had suitable conditions for the genesis of life. If life really did emerge way back then, and then continued to travel through space on the back of asteroids and other interplanetary debris, it would seem almost certain that a) Earth was not the home of the universe's first life, and b) life on Earth arrived on the back of an asteroid.

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Fastest Growth in Wind Power Will Occur in International Emerging Markets

2014-01-29 16:34:00| Transmission & Distribution World

While many established markets are experiencing flat or single-digit growth rates, the average compound annual growth rate for 10 selected emerging wind markets in Africa and the former Soviet Union from 2013 to 2023 will be 21.9 percent. read more

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