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1c, d). b Regions with statistically implausible record events (where a return period cannot be calculated) plotted against the year of the event. Red crosses indicate two neighbouring regions of the 2021 Western North America heatwave. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Full ...
Northeasterly trade winds carry tropical storms from east to west. The prevailing westerlies drive midlatitude storms generally from west to east. Few major storm systems develop in the comparatively small Arctic region; the chief influence of the polar easterlies is their contribution to the ...
humans are constantly changing their environment which does have an impact (e.g. turning a corn field into an asphalt parking lot or massive deforestation in the world's major tropical rainforests or laying down a carpet of black soot on ice...
The colonisation of eastern parts of the Pacific Islands was the last phase in the preindustrial expansion of the human species. Given the scale and challe
(that support much of Bahamas tourism income) from erosion under the increasing cyclones impacting the region. The Bahama Banks seagrass ecosystem also supports important fisheries, which target commercial species such as the Nassau grouperEpinephalus striatus, Queen conchLobatus gigas, Caribbean spiny ...