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Category: What is going on with the Earth’s climate?

What is going on with the Earth’s climate? How do we study climate? What does the data show?
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Tornado winds are strongest closest to the ground

Posted on May 1, 2023April 17, 2023 by Aubrey Zerkle

Researchers from the University of Illinois compiled ground-level tornado wind speeds from more than 70 tornadoes over 30 years. They found…

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    Underground microbes capture greenhouse gases

    Posted on February 20, 2023February 16, 2023 by Sciworthy

    Researchers showed microbes living on the walls of underground caves can take up and store carbon dioxide and methane from the atmosphere.

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      Tonga super eruption reached unexpected heights

      Posted on December 12, 2022April 17, 2023 by Aubrey Zerkle

      On January 15th, 2022, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai violently erupted, spewing an immense plume of ash and gas into…

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        How do microbes affect clouds in the Arctic?

        Posted on October 10, 2022October 24, 2022 by Hunter Dulay

        Seasonal changes in bacteria living in the air above the Arctic are partly caused by air current changes and may alter cloud formation.…

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          How do climate scientists make regional projections?

          Posted on October 7, 2021October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

          A small team of researchers have challenged a long-held assumption about how scientists have been applying global climate models to specific…

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            Can hidden sulfur cycling influence greenhouse gas emissions in wetlands?

            Posted on March 2, 2021October 24, 2022 by Mary Sabuda

            Wetlands are the largest source of methane to Earth’s atmosphere. How do microbes, sulfur, and mixing of water sources influence…

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              Using Reishi mushrooms to filter methane out of the atmosphere

              Posted on January 11, 2021October 24, 2022 by Mary Sabuda

              Could dead or living #fungi be used as a biofilter to trap and remove #methane, the potent #greenhousegas, from the atmosphere? Researchers…

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                What is direct heating and how does it impact our future?

                Posted on January 7, 2021October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                You hear people panicking about climate change. But what about direct heating? Even if there was no climate change, our energy use still…

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                  A new kind of battery that removes carbon dioxide from the air

                  Posted on November 2, 2020October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                  Nature has been able to filter out CO2 from our air for millions of years. So how might a battery prove to be our own artificial tree?…

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                    Symbiotic fungi can save farm crops during droughts

                    Posted on September 11, 2020October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                    What should farmers do to deal with disappearing water? Add fungi to the soil! This recent study sheds light on the use of mycorrhizae to…

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                      Artist's impression of the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581. Credit: ESO

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