Pacific

In agrarian , pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

El niño, Spanish for "the child", occurs when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean

As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.

But what if the fault that runs along the Pacific Northwest delivers a gigantic earthquake of its own?

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

Here’s how the Pacific Northwest is preparing for "The big One".

Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific.

Many scientists believe that El nio events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific.

The new marine reserve, now the largest in the Pacific, will permit no fishing or mining.

The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine sanctuary in the world.

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El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

Since 1962 pacific science center has been inspiring a passion for discovery and lifelong learning in science, math and technology.

The café is located upstairs in building 1 and is open daily until one hour before pacific science center closes.

The hotel has the best views of the pacific ocean.

When entering the house, the customer would see the pacific ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level.

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea’s peak rises above the bulk of our planet’s dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea's peak rises above the bulk of our planet's dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain Images of unsurpassed clarity.