Tea flavors changing with shifting rainfall patterns
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. In the United States, tea purchases have increased…
Ocean currents explain rainfall riddle
Most of the rain on Earth falls in the Northern Hemisphere and scientists have long believed that this was a…
Climatologists estimate extreme rainfall events in tropics
Thunderstorm complexes, flood-inducing monsoonsand wide-sweeping cyclones will all become more likely in the tropics; suggest MIT projections that show 10…
Fine-particle air pollution causing more severe storms
Climatologists say that aerosols (fine-particle air pollution) in the atmosphere dramatically affect cloud development to reduce precipitation in dry regions…