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How Earths rotation affects vortices in nature, such as hurricanes and ocean currents

2013-10-15 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring. In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire...

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How is Climate Change Jeopardizing the Sounds of Nature?

2013-10-15 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AccuWeather.com: Climate change has brought once lively and loud habitats to utter silence as their inhabitants of birds, frogs and insects have either vanished or drastically changed their migration patterns. A relatively new study known as biophony, or the signature of collective sounds that occur in any given habitat at any given time, has provided scientific evidence to show that the sounds of nature have been altered by both global warming and human endeavors. "Biophony is changing," bioacoustician and...

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Join Volunteer Restoration at Powell Butte Nature Park

2013-10-11 17:01:25| PortlandOnline

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Congratulations to our Force of Nature CityGreen Partners!

2013-10-10 21:58:19| PortlandOnline

Awards at yesterdays Intertwine Alliance summit recognized some of our regions outstanding leaders and projects that connect people, nature and places.

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