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Earth science can help inform and design strategies to cope with natural disasters or climate change. The use of system models also help explain the Earth's past and possible future behaviour.
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Opinions and Analysis
Forecasting investment can prevent cyclone destruction
Improved forecasting and mitigation strategies are essential to limiting the damage caused by tropical cyclones, says Peter J. Webster.
15 August 2008
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Source: Nature Geoscience
Earth sciences need a higher profile
Let's encourage the mood of political cooperation on the big issues during the International Year of Planet Earth, says Nasser Ennih.
29 February 2008
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Forecasting a storm in India
5 July 2005
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Source: The Hindu
News and Features
East African rain 'linked to Northern climate'
Sediment cores taken from Lake Tanganyika in East Africa reveal that local rainfall is influenced by climate change in the Northern Hemisphere.
Global warming 'induces fewer, but meaner, cyclones'
Adverse wind conditions due to global warming will reduce the frequency of tropical cyclones, but may form stronger ones, researchers warn.
