Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. In the United States, tea purchases have increased for 20 consecutive years and annual sales have surpassed $2.2 billion, with 160 million Americans drinking tea on any given day, according to the Tea Association of the USA. Now, a team of researchers has […]
Most of the rain on Earth falls in the Northern Hemisphere and scientists have long believed that this was a quirk of the planet’s geometry, but a new University of Washington study shows that this rainfall pattern arises from a much simpler system. “It rains more in the Northern Hemisphere because it’s warmer,” said atmosphere […]
Thunderstorm complexes, flood-inducing monsoonsand wide-sweeping cyclones will all become more likely in the tropics; suggest MIT projections that show 10 percent heavier rainfall extremes for every 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature. The new estimates, appearing in the journal Nature Geoscience, are based on model simulations and decades of observations. Most of the possible consequences […]
Climatologists say that aerosols (fine-particle air pollution) in the atmosphere dramatically affect cloud development to reduce precipitation in dry regions while increasing the severity of storms. Aerosols come from the combustion of fossil fuels, industrial and agricultural processes, and the accidental or deliberate burning of fields and forests. The University of Maryland-led team of researchers […]
