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Tropics: Better news on Tropical Depression 9; Humberto now a Category 5 – WLOS

Tropics: Better news on Tropical Depression 9; Humberto now a Category 5 – WLOS

Tropics: Better news on Tropical Depression 9; Humberto now a Category 5  WLOS Florida On Watch Ahead Of Future Imelda; Humberto Category 5 Hurricane  The Weather Channel First Alert Weather Tropical Forecast: Continuing to track Tropical Depression 9 and Humberto  WTOC Impending tropical storm to approach Southeast US coast this week: What to know about the forecast  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News …

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Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …

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Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics

Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs in the field in Uganda and Madagascar, I am fascinated by the environments that shaped our primate ancestors. These new findings overturn decades of assumptions about how – and …

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