13-05-19 A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming planet. The findings app...

13-04-03 One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the Southern Hemisphere, which could significantly alter tropical precipitation（降水，沉淀） patterns, according to a new study by climat...

13-01-29 In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers used genomic techniques to document the presence of significant numbers of living microorganisms -- principally bacteria -- in the middle and upper troposphere（对流层） , that secti...

12-07-25 For the first time, scientists have identified tropical and subtropical species of marine protozoa（原生动物） living in the Arctic Ocean. Apparently, they traveled thousands of miles on Atlantic currents and ended up above Norway with an unusual --...

12-05-11 Harvesting tropical forests for timber may not be the arch-enemy of conservation that it was once assumed to be, according to a new study led by a University of Florida researcher. Selective logging may be one of the few feasible options left for co...

11-09-15 A team of researchers from Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, the UK and the USA has carried out a comprehensive assessment to estimate the impact of disturbance（干扰，骚乱） and land conversion on biodiversity in tropical forests. In a recent stud...

11-06-08 The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirmed a hot tower near the center of the first tropical...

10-11-12 The steamiest places on the planet are getting warmer. Conservative（保守的） estimates suggest that tropical areas can expect temperature increases of 3 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. Does global warming spell（意味着，招致） doom for...

10-09-14 Tropical Depression 12 was born in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean yesterday, Sept. 12 and two NASA satellites saw factors that indicated she would later strengthen into Tropical Storm Julia. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed stron...

10-03-13 The secondever known tropical cyclone（热带气旋） in the South Atlantic Ocean can't escape satellite eyes, and today, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite（地球静止业务环境卫星） , GOES-12 captured a visible image of Tropical Storm...