1970 was “World Conservation Year”. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger. They hoped that the governments would act quickly in order to conserve nature. Here is o

Scientists in the United States say plant life has increased on Earth in the past twenty years. And they say in every area of plant growth the increase is the result of weather conditions. Eight scie

A study conducted by scientists in the U.S. and Italy warns that summers could be a lot hotter in a hundred years because of global warming caused by greenhouse gases. The study notes that during the

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently did a study of hurricanes, that is, violent ocean storms. They say the number of the most powerful storms has increased by almost one hundred

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F: I have just read from the newspaper that Florida was hit by two major ocean storms recently. M: When did that happen? F: Hurricane Charley hit the western coast of Florida in the middle of August

Now we will tell you where the names of storms come from. An Australian weather scientist began to call storms by women’s names before the end of the 19th century. During World War II, weather scient

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Scientists have to think like detectives. They look for clues to help them understand how the world works. Then they investigate the clues to find evidence. Here are some of the ways that scientists g

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