Tag: winds

Study explains mystery of former crater lakes in the highest mountain range of the Sahara

EARTH
An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has shown how deep lakes formed more than 9,500 years ago in the craters of the Tibesti Mountains...

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Turkey, causing about a dozen buildings to collapse

EARTHQUAKES
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir on Sunday, causing about a dozen buildings to collapse, an official said. At least one person was trapped in the debris of a collapsed building. The earthquake,...

Fueling the Los Angeles fires: the Santa Ana winds

EARTH
Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out...

Winds of change drive ‘alarming’ rate of ocean warming

ENVIRONMENT
UNSW researchers have solved the mystery of why and how ocean "hotspots" are forming so fast, by examining the winds that influence the ocean...

NASA’s Perseverance studies the wild winds of Jezero Crater

ASTRONOMY
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by...

Black hole winds are no longer as they used to be

ASTRONOMY
During the first billion years of the universe, winds blown by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies were much more frequent and...

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