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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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Tonga super eruption reached unexpected heights

Posted on December 12, 2022November 30, 2022 by Aubrey Zerkle 1k views

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 669 views

    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 1k views

      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 434 views

        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 2k views

          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 523 views

            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 1k views

              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 662 views

                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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                  A new model for predicting human population growth

                  Posted on July 17, 2020November 2, 2022 by Gina Misra 1k views

                  Scientists at University of Washington have attempted to improve upon previous population models developed by the United Nations and the…

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                    Oxygen, nitrogen, and what happens when biology gets involved

                    Posted on October 10, 2019December 3, 2022 by Sciworthy 1k views

                    When studying Earth’s past, researchers want to understand how nutrients like nitrogen cycled and the impact biology had on them.…

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