Star Count Goes Global Oct 21, 2008
Participants in the Northern Hemisphere will look for the constellation Cygnus, while those in the Southern Hemisphere will look for the constellation Sagittarius. They will then match their observations with charts downloaded from the Great World Wide Star Count Web site. (Science Daily)
"Chemical Equator" Divides Earth's Hemispheres Oct 3, 2008
Called a "chemical equator," the 31-mile-(50-kilometer) wide boundary separates the Northern Hemisphere's dirty air from that of the less polluted Southern Hemisphere. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved: Martian Weather Sep 23, 2008
During the southern hemisphere s summer, much of the ice cap sublimates, a process in which the ice turns straight back into gas, leaving behind what is known as the residual polar cap. The problem is that while the winter cap is symmetrical about the south pole, the residual cap is offset by some three to four degrees. (Science Daily)
Sleek Probe To Map Earth’s Gravity Sep 11, 2008
Data from GOCE will provide information on ocean currents in remote regions such as the southern hemisphere for the first time, says Keith Haines from the University of Reading, an expert in ocean circulation. GOCE has other uses. (Science Daily)
Meteor shower promises spectacular show Aug 11, 2008
Though best observed from the northern hemisphere the spectacular showering is also visible in the southern hemisphere. For instructions on how best to view the meteor shower see the NASA site. (The Tech Herald)
Lambeth I: The Anglican Church's shifting center Jul 25, 2008
The current fissures began a decade ago at the last Lambeth Conference with a controversial resolution about homosexual practice and the Bible, supported by a coalition of bishops from the Southern Hemisphere and a handful of allied American conservatives ... One idea would be for church leaders to resolve now to hold the next Lambeth Conference - the one that meets in 2018 - in a city in the Southern Hemisphere ... Women's leadership also plays an important role in the Southern Hemisphere, with... (International Herald Tribune)
ANIMATED PHOTO: Ice Shelf Hanging by a Thread Jul 16, 2008
The most recent collapse, which caused a loss of some 520 square miles (1,350 square kilometers) of ice, puzzled scientists: It is the first-known collapse to occur in the Southern Hemisphere winter. The shelf is now stabilized by a thin ice bridge (seen in the center of the images) that anchors it to nearby Charcot Island. (National Geographic)
Summer Solstice Facts, for When "the Sun Stands Still" Jun 20, 2008
The "summer solstice" should be called the "June solstice," because it is actually the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere ... At the same time, in the Southern Hemisphere, the pole is tilted farthest away from the sun, and the June solstice falls in winter, marking the shortest and darkest day of the year. (National Geographic)
Australian Dinosaur Has South American Heritage Jun 15, 2008
He said it was the first time a dinosaur with unquestionable affinities to animals from other Southern Hemisphere continents had been recognised in Australia. "Throughout much of the Age of Dinosaurs, Australia formed part of the southern super-continent of Gondwana," Dr Salisbury said. (Science Daily)
New Dinosaur May Link S. American, Aussie Dinos Jun 11, 2008
This in turn suggests that Gondwana's Southern Hemisphere landmasses broke up later than traditionally thought. Strange Forearm. (National Geographic)
* FEATURE: Air monitoring scheme gets a hand Jun 7, 2008
The phenomenon has been observed on flights that travel from the northern to the southern hemisphere [Japan to Australia], he said, adding that since the global air current naturally goes east to west and rarely north to south, our observations indicate that the carbon increase is a global problem. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
"Weird" Pygmy Whale Dissected May 8, 2008
The animals seem to inhabit the Southern Hemisphere, and most sightings and strandings occur in Australia and New Zealand. A few individuals were taken by whalers in the 1960s and 1970s, according to team member Catherine Kemper, curator of mammals at the South Australian Museum. (National Geographic)
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Lake Vanishes Suddenly in Chile Apr 12, 2008
Casassa said temperatures were unusually high during the recent Southern Hemisphere summer. "This is a phenomenon that occurs periodically during the summer season, caused by the melting of large masses of ice that swell some lakes," he said. (National Geographic)
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Ramen Museum, Huge Cigarette Butt, More Apr 12, 2008
The dunes were spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last month as it passed over the Hellespontus region in the red planet's southern hemisphere, where many of Mars's dust storms are thought to originate. The formations' crescent shapes suggest that they were created by powerful winds blowing from west to east, collecting sand from nearby eroding plateaus, scientists said. (National Geographic)
Japan May Be Ready to Deal on Whaling, Insider Hints Mar 27, 2008
Perhaps the biggest deal on the table is the reported possibility that Japan may give up whaling in the Southern Hemisphere in exchange for the sanctioning of limited whaling closer to home. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
Australian Building His Own Stonehenge Mar 26, 2008
A small team of quarry workers in Western Australia has spent the past five months drilling and blasting the stones into shape, and Smith expects the attraction will be open by December 21, the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. England's Stonehenge was created between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. Today it is a major tourist attraction and has spiritual significance for neo-druids and New Age followers, thousands of whom gather there on June 21 each year to celebrate the Northern... (National Geographic)
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses Mar 26, 2008
As summer in the Southern Hemisphere draws to a close, further disintegration of the shelf seems unlikely, Scambos added. "But come January, we'll be watching to see if the Wilkins continues to fall apart," he said. (National Geographic)
Centuries-Old Supernova "Echoes" Detected Mar 21, 2008
In one of the studies, lead author Carles Badenes of Princeton and his colleagues note that European exploration of the Southern Hemisphere was well underway by that time, and navigators often studied the sky for guidance. Several early scientists were even making star maps during this period. (National Geographic)
Ancient Global Dimming Linked to Volcanic Eruption Mar 20, 2008
Curiously, the eruption's cooling effect did not extend to the southern hemisphere, the scientists say. Together, the tree-ring and acid evidence suggest the sixth-century eruption was even bigger than Indonesia's Mount Tambora eruption of 1815, which also dimmed the sun. (National Geographic)
Out on a limb Mar 9, 2008
Today Kaikoura lies within the Southern Hemisphere Whale Sanctuary. Several species, including humpbacks, pilots, blue whales and orcas, can be seen off Kaikoura at different times of the year, but young male sperm whales (some up to 20 metres long) are permanent residents, enjoying the rich diet of the Kaikoura waters while building up their strength to move to the mating grounds of the north. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Ancient Crayfish Fossils Unravel Evolution Mystery Feb 9, 2008
New fossils of ancient crayfish and their branching burrows provide the oldest evidence of crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere, experts say ... Hundreds of known species are divided into two distinct groups, one in the Northern Hemisphere and the other in the Southern Hemisphere ... Contributing to the mystery was an absence of any very old crayfish fossils from the Southern Hemisphere. (National Geographic)
Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, first to climb Mount Everest Jan 12, 2008
During the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1957-58 a British Commonwealth team that included Sir Edmund crossed the Antarctic on an overland route that traversed the South Pole. No one had attained the South Pole since Amundsen in 1911, and no one had ever crossed Antarctica. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Solar System Is Bent, Spacecraft Info Shows Dec 12, 2007
Voyager 2 passed the termination shock five times and determined the boundary in the southern hemisphere was about a billion miles closer to the sun than the spot where Voyager 1 crossed in the northern hemisphere, Stone said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Scientists believe the unevenness is caused by the interstellar magnetic field that is pitched at an angle to the plane of the Milky Way (). (National Geographic)
Climate Change Pushing Tropics Farther, Faster Dec 4, 2007
That air then moves poleward north in the Northern Hemisphere, south in the Southern Hemisphere. Wrung dry of moisture, the air eventually descends back to Earth, producing deserts. (National Geographic)
Venezuela in line to partner PetroSA Oct 25, 2007
Chavez has repeatedly spoken about the need for southern hemisphere countries to co-operate more to reduce reliance on developed economies. South Africa's already stretched oil refining sector has experienced maintenance problems in recent years, leading to unplanned shutdowns, hampered by the fact that it takes three weeks to ship additional crude because of the country's geographic location in relation to the oilfields of the Middle East. (Business Report, South Africa)
Canfor Pulp Income Fund Announces Third Quarter 2007 Results Oct 23, 2007
Further, there is new hardwood pulp capacity entering the market from the southern hemisphere. This could cause some price slippage in hardwood pulp markets which could also put pressure on substitution of hardwood pulp for softwood pulp. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Alcatel-Lucent Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results Jul 31, 2007
- Network operations and hosted services registered a strong performance, with significant wins including a three year contract with Vivo in Brazil, the largest mobile operator in the Southern hemisphere and a turnkey build out of a carrier network operations center with Shanghai Telecom in China. In addition Alcatel-Lucent won a contract to supply Network Operations Support Center services for Nextgen Networks optical network. (PR Newswire)
Mars Dust Storm Weakens -- But Won't Doom -- Rovers Jul 7, 2007
A massive dust storm covering about a quarter of Mars's southern hemisphere is "starving" NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, forcing mission managers to put the robots on regular nap-time schedules to save energy. The storm, which currently covers about 7 million square miles (18 million square kilometers) of the red planet, is blocking sunlight form reaching the solar-powered rovers' light-collecting arrays (see a ). (National Geographic)
Giant penguins may have roamed Peru Jun 30, 2007
Known mostly for their presence in Antarctica, penguins today live in many islands in the Southern Hemisphere, some even near the equator. But scientists thought they hadn't reached warm areas until about 10 million years ago. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Find Direction without a Compass I Jun 9, 2007
If you re located in the southern hemisphere, you have a bit more work to do. The Southern Cross is a grouping of four stars that create the shape of a crucifix, set diagonal to the horizon. (Suite101.com)
Wayward Penguins Hitch Rides to U.S. on Fishing Boats Jun 8, 2007
With the exception of a population in the Galpagos Islands just a smidge north of the Equator, all 17 species of penguins are found exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere (see a ). So how did the Humboldt penguin get to Alaska. (National Geographic)
Get in touch with your inner Tarzan May 17, 2007
The all inclusive trip (which includes round-trip airfare) runs $9,530 per person for a 15 day / 12 night voyage, and can be done each year from November to February (summer in the Southern Hemisphere). Trip #4: Tracking gorillas in Uganda / chimps in TanzaniaWhile everyone knows about the traditional big game African safari, a different, perhaps more intimate alternative is to track gorillas and chimps in the African jungle. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Southern Whale Migration Overlapping Northern Whale Breeding Grounds Apr 21, 2007
Humpback whales are divided into Northern and Southern Hemisphere populations. Both groups of whales feed in one place and breed in another, sometimes crossing thousands of ocean miles in between. (National Geographic)
Invasive Bugs, Plants Prefer Summer Plane Flights, Study Finds Apr 12, 2007
"There are more airports in the Northern Hemisphere, and the major Southern Hemisphere airports tend to be closer to the Equator," Tatem said. "The June-to-August period stood out as the time when, overall, the busiest flight routes connect geographically distant but climatically similar locations.". (National Geographic)
AGU Journal Highlights -- February 23, 2007 Feb 24, 2007
These phenomena are thought to provide information on mesospheric temperatures, a parameter which may shed light on whether the polar atmospheres between the northern and southern hemisphere are different ... Morris et al. collected the first complete season of southern hemisphere PMSE data above Davis, Antarctica, using a 55-megahertz atmospheric radar during the 2004-2005 southern hemisphere summer. (EurekAlert!)
The Climate Debate turns ugly Jan 31, 2007
In it, she compared global warming denial to "going on air and saying that hurricanes rotate clockwise," apparently herself unaware that in the southern hemisphere hurricanes do indeed rotate in this direction. Cullen's statement immediately provoked outrage from meteorologists around the nation, with angrily proclaiming, "I don't know a single meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype.". (DailyTech)
WEATHER CHANNEL EXPERT LAMENTS 'VERY POLITICAL CLIMATE'... Jan 20, 2007
Climate Change & Environment Blog from The Weather Channel. Blog Blog Comments January 18, 2007. (The Drudge Report)
Photo in the News: Superbright Comet Sweeps Across Southern Skies Jan 19, 2007
The comet is currently visible in the Southern Hemisphere near the horizon at dawn and dusk ... Since then comet McNaught had it's nearest brush with the sun and became visible only to Southern Hemisphere sky-watchers. (National Geographic)
Authorities clear Domtar merger with Weyerhaeuser Jan 10, 2007
That increase in activity, which is being mirrored across North America and Europe, is partially in response to increased output from the Southern hemisphere, where increased production at lower costs is putting pressure on markets, he said. I think the important thing is this transaction makes sense when you look at the assets coming together, he said. (National Post)
