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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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How do climate scientists make regional projections?

Posted on October 7, 2021June 24, 2025 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, 2021June 26, 2025 by Sciworthy

    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, 2021December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

      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, 2020June 25, 2025 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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              A new model for predicting human population growth

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

              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

                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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                  Cyanobacteria can teach us about climate adaptation

                  Posted on August 1, 2019October 24, 2022 by Erica Curles

                  The oceans are warming due to climate change and this will impact all oceanic life, from the smallest plankton to the largest tuna. The web…

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                    “Hulk”-like microorganisms in soil can survive high levels of gamma radiation

                    Posted on June 19, 2019March 8, 2024 by Sciworthy

                    In the Marvel Universe, Bruce Banner exposed his body to high doses of gamma radiation during an experiment in his lab. The gamma radiation…

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