Foehn effect When air passes over mountains, the valleys on the downwind side (or 'lee' side) commonly experience strong and gusty downslope winds accompanied by abrupt warming and drying. These are known as foehn winds, and their warming and drying effect - the foehn effect - can be striking and far-reaching. What is the foehn effect? Foehn winds (sometimes written "Föhn") are common in mountainous regions, regularly impacting the lives of their residents and influencing weather conditions for hundreds of kilometres downwind. How to Stop Attacking Yourself Inflammation is a ‘hot’ topic in medicine. It appears connected to almost every known chronic disease — from heart disease to cancer, diabetes to obesity, autism to dementia, and even depression. Other inflammatory diseases such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, and autoimmune disease are increasing at dramatic rates. As physicians, we are trained to shut off inflammation with aspirin, anti-inflammatory medication (such as Advil or Motrin), steroids, and increasingly more powerful immune suppressing medication with serious side effects.
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Scientists say the global ocean circulation may be more vulnerable to shutdown than we thought The Gulf Stream carries warm water from the eastern coastline of the United States to regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) Intense future climate change could have a far different impact on the world than current models predict, suggests a thought-provoking new study just out in the journal Science Advances.
PhotoMaps All of your photos. On a map. Ready to share. Dust Over the Arabian Sea October is a month of transition for weather patterns over the Arabian Sea. In the summer, winds blow from the sea toward land. In the winter, the winds reverse and blow over the Arabian Sea from the northeast. During October, between the summer and winter monsoons, the prevailing wind direction varies. When the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image on October 26, 2016, northeasterly winds were dominant and blew several dust plumes off the coast of Iran and Pakistan.
The World's Largest Slums: Dharavi, Kibera, Khayelitsha & Neza While the number of people living the five biggest slums in the world amounts to 5.7 million, this is only just a drop in the ocean. Today, by the most conservative estimates, about 900 million people live in slums. But most experts agree that including different types of informal settlements, the number goes up to 1.6 billion – which represents 1/4 of the world’s urban population. By 2030, it’s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. Let’s take a tour of the world’s biggest slums: Khayelitsha in Cape Town (South Africa): 400,000Kibera in Nairobi (Kenya): 700,000Dharavi in Mumbai (India): 1,000,000Neza (Mexico): 1,200,000Orangi Town in Karachi (Pakistan): 2,400,000
L’espace habité que réclame l’assurance intime de pouvoir: Un essai d’approfondissement sociologique de l’anthropologie capacitaire de Paul Ricoeur L’espace habité que réclame l’assurance intime de pouvoir: Un essai d’approfondissement sociologique de l’anthropologie capacitaire de Paul Ricoeur Marc Breviglieri Abstract *****Pressure: An interactive journey to the bottom of the sea Now we can all experience diving to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, nearly 11,000m down into the depths of the ocean Fifty-seven years ago, Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and US Navy Captain Don Walsh touched down at the very bottom of the sea – 10,911m (35,797ft) deep – in their specially-designed submarine, the Trieste. The location was Challenger Deep, a spot in the Mariana Trench, east of the Mariana Islands, the lowest known point in the entirety of the planet’s oceans. Named ‘Project Nekton’, the touchdown was the first time in human history that anyone had reached such depths. ‘Like a free balloon on a windless day,’ wrote Piccard, ‘indifferent to the almost 200,000 tons of water pressing on the cabin from all sides, balanced to within an ounce or so on its wire guide rope, slowly, surely, in the name of science and humanity, the Trieste took possession of the abyss, the last extreme on our Earth that remained to be conquered.’
Yes, Organic Farming Will Kill Us All – NewCo Shift I told a story a little while ago and received an interesting comment; here’s most of it: Local food, organic food, “real” food produces less per unit of land farmed without a demonstrable improvement in nourishment. Do you really want to have to expand the amount of land in cultivation to feed the earth? Wholesale going “local” means having more limited diets. As long as this is limited to zealots and those who want to be accepted by their organic friends, and for whom the amount of their income spent on food is negligible, that’s great. It’s a lifestyle expense. Flights probe jet stream role in floods A major international effort is under way to research one of the greatest unknowns in weather forecasting - the influence of the jet stream. For the first time, a fleet of drones and planes is being deployed from the United States, Iceland and Britain to investigate the flow of air crossing the Atlantic. Jet streams are powerful currents of high-altitude wind that govern the patterns of weather down on the surface.
Scientists begin to unravel summer jet stream mystery As the UK's official weather service the Met Office works closely with the media to ensure that the country is aware of, and can cope during, times of extreme weather. The Met Office Press Office provides journalists with accurate and reliable weather and climate information and resources for stories on TV and radio, in print, and online. Welcome to the Press Office, the Met Office's dedicated resource for journalists. The Press Office works closely with the UK's media to provide journalists with accurate and reliable weather and climate information and resources to support the nations enduring fascination with the weather. Here on the Press Office web pages you can find our latest news releases, news archive and the official blog of the Met Office press office. Together they provide journalists and bloggers with the latest weather, climate science and business news and information from the Met Office.
Saharan dust causing hazy conditions Reports of haziness over the weekend are the result of high winds which carry over mineral dust from the Saharan Desert, bringing with it hazy visibility and for some, respiratory problems. Meteorologist Jean-Marc Rampersad said to LoopTT that, although it is difficult to predict how long these conditions will last, if strong winds continue, chances are likely that the present hazy conditions will persist for up to 48 hours. He added that the strength and duration of hazy conditions depends on factors such as wind surge and wind direction over the Atlantic Ocean, which channels dust from the Sahara Desert on the African continent over to the Caribbean and parts of South America. The added dustiness may irritate those prone to respiratory conditions such as sinusitis or asthma. A forecast from the University of Athens showed the Trinidad and Tobago and parts of the Caribbean being affected by Saharan Dust, with a reported dust concentration of between one and 10 cubic metres.