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The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...
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Scientists Discover Why the Southern Jet Stream Is Moving
The Southern Hemisphere’s eddy-driven jet (EDJ), a critical force shaping weather patterns across South America, Southern ...
Sugars from the salty ocean are responsible for a large part of the ice nuclei over southern hemisphere
Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
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Why the Southern jet stream is shifting - and what it means
Scientists have traced the shifting and strengthening Southern jet stream to global warming and other major climate drivers.
New insights into the jet stream make better climate predictions possible
Jet streams are often referred to as the "motor" of global weather: High-altitude wind currents steer areas of high and low ...
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The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern, and we finally ...
The Southern Hemisphere has a stronger jet stream and more intense weather events. Ideas had been circulated, but no one had established a definitive explanation for this asymmetry.
Smithsonian Magazine15d
Rare Appearance of Two Novas at Once Illuminates the Southern Sky. Here’s How to Get a Chance to See It
The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN16d
Southern Hemisphere Gull Seen in Wisconsin for the First Time, Drawing Tourists for a Rare Glimpse of the Out-of-Place Bird
The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...