Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
We've all experienced sweltering summer days that make us want to seek refuge in the air conditioning.
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- Written by: William Gallus
A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
To comprehend El Niño, we must first acknowledge its counterpart, La Niña, and their intricate relationship as part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system.
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- Written by: Paloma Trascasa-Castro
Every two to seven years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean gets up to 3°C warmer (what we know as an El Niño event) or colder (La Niña) than usual, triggering a cascade of effects felt around the world.
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- Written by: Russ Schumacher
The U.S. recently has experienced two rarer events: organized lines of thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds, known as derechos.
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- Written by: John Oliver
John Oliver discusses the tension between the public and private worlds of predicting the weather.
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- Written by: Jennifer Weeks
The official Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1, even as many communities are still recovering from a destructive year in 2018.
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- Written by: Morten Wendelbo
During the 2017 disaster season, three severe hurricanes devastated large parts of the U.S.
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- Written by: Dale Dominey-Howes
Natural disasters have filled our news in recent weeks. They wreak havoc in poor and vulnerable communities and cost billions in recovery and aid funding.
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- Written by: Ker Than, Stanford University
After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour, or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group inevitably get phone calls and emails asking whether human-caused climate change played a role.
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- Written by: Mari Jensen, University of Arizona
Sea level changes in the Pacific Ocean let scientists estimate future global average surface temperatures, a new report shows.
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- Written by: Rob Jordan, Stanford University
This past July was the hottest single month in Earth’s recorded history, but warming isn’t the only danger climate change holds in store.
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- Written by: Amy Pullan, University of Sheffield
Scientists say recent work to unravel the mysteries of the Atlantic jet stream could pay off with better long-term forecasts of summer weather.
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- Written by: Alison Cook, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Andrew B. Watkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Blair Trewin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Catherine Ganter, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
The 2015-16 El Niño has likely reached its end. Tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures, trade winds, cloud and pressure patterns have all dropped back to near normal, although clearly the event’s impacts around the globe are still being felt.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Drought has spread in several provinces of Mindanao Island. Photo from the Facebook page of RMP-NMR Rising temperatures and water shortages are affecting many countries in Southeast Asia, thanks to the El Niño climate phenomenon.
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- Written by: Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Analysis of air samples shows that the cleansing effect of heavy rainfall is diminished by organic particles spattering up into the atmosphere from the soil.
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- Written by: Alfredo Huete, Professor, Plant Functional Biology & Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney
The world’s climate is already changing. Extreme weather events (floods, droughts, and heatwaves) are increasing as global temperatures rise. While we are starting to learn how these changes will affect
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- Written by: Fred Love-Iowa State
Midwestern farmers usually fare well during years that El Niño weather patterns affect the growing season.
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- Written by: Brian Palmer, OnEarth
This is the year of obscure atmospheric phenomenon. The polar vortex chilled everyone’s winter. Methane releases might be carving mysterious craters in the Arctic ice. And blocking patterns got the blame for Colorado’s so-called thousand-year flood.
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- Written by: Andrew Freeman, Climate Central
A new study shows that there is at least a 76 percent likelihood that an El Niño event will occur later this year, potentially reshaping global weather patterns for a year or more and raising the odds that 2015 will set a record for the warmest year since instrument records began in the late 19th century.
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