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Climate is the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region. These are often broken down as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
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JUL 11, 2021Earth & The Environment
During the winter of 2019, a large and deep lake on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica was lost in about a week. Abo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 08, 2021Earth & The Environment
Cod stocks in the North Sea and the Barents Sea may be predicted ten years in advance for the first time, thanks to a ne ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 06, 2021Earth & The Environment
When it comes to climate change, the Arctic is changing faster than any other place on Earth. One reason may be because ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 05, 2021Plants & Animals
Great white sharks are warm-blooded, and new research helps explain why.Written By: Anne MedinaJUL 04, 2021Earth & The Environment
The heat wave that has been devastating communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States may ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 03, 2021Earth & The Environment
Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich have identified both preferable and dangerous temperature ranges f ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 29, 2021Earth & The Environment
Hydroelectric plants are touted for their ability to provide so-called green energy, which aims to continue to satisfy d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 27, 2021Earth & The Environment
Some have suggested that excess atmospheric carbon can promote plant growth, and maybe bigger plants would take up more ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 27, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the anthropogenic ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 25, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Many people in the world don't have access to enough food. And while humans might find ways to adapt to a changing world ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 23, 2021Microbiology
Oil drums full of old diesel fuel have accumulated and are contaminating soil at military outposts in Greenland that are ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 21, 2021Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications reports higher projections of extreme urban heat waves than p ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 21, 2021Microbiology
Microbes have many connections to humans. Gut microbes have a major influence on our health. For example, when we eat fr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 21, 2021Microbiology
In Brazil, clinicians have noted a rise in C. auris infections. Researchers believe that exhausted healthcare workers, o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 18, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth. ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 15, 2021Earth & The Environment
A novel approach to predicting global climate forecasts has been described in the journals Earth System Science Dat ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 11, 2021Earth & The Environment
An overlooked aspect of glacial melt could be key to improving sea-level rise models. We often think of glacial melt as ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 10, 2021Plants & Animals
Coral reefs besieged by climate change and pollutants have a new line of defense against disease-an antibiotic commonly ...Written By: Anne MedinaJUN 04, 2021Earth & The Environment
Two new studies suggest that Earth’s most recent ice age, which occurred approximately 20,000 years ago, was not q ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 03, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Science reports on the discovery of a massive shark die-off - nearly 19 million ye ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 02, 2021Earth & The Environment
As hard as it is to imagine, the rolling dunes that we picture now when we think of the Sahara used to be quite differen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 29, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have that there was four times more soot in the pre-industrial Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere than pre ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 28, 2021Earth & The Environment
While we typically consider global warming to have detrimental impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, new research publ ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 23, 2021Microbiology
In the world of microbes, organisms like viruses and bacteria get a lot of attention. But researchers are beginning to s ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2021
Earth & The Environment
During the winter of 2019, a large and deep lake on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica was lost in about a week. Abo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Cod stocks in the North Sea and the Barents Sea may be predicted ten years in advance for the first time, thanks to a ne
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 06, 2021
Earth & The Environment
When it comes to climate change, the Arctic is changing faster than any other place on Earth. One reason may be because
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2021
Plants & Animals
Great white sharks are warm-blooded, and new research helps explain why.
Written By:
Anne Medina
JUL 04, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The heat wave that has been devastating communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States may
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich have identified both preferable and dangerous temperature ranges f
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 29, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Hydroelectric plants are touted for their ability to provide so-called green energy, which aims to continue to satisfy d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Some have suggested that excess atmospheric carbon can promote plant growth, and maybe bigger plants would take up more
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the anthropogenic
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 25, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Many people in the world don't have access to enough food. And while humans might find ways to adapt to a changing world
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 23, 2021
Microbiology
Oil drums full of old diesel fuel have accumulated and are contaminating soil at military outposts in Greenland that are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2021
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications reports higher projections of extreme urban heat waves than p
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 21, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes have many connections to humans. Gut microbes have a major influence on our health. For example, when we eat fr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2021
Microbiology
In Brazil, clinicians have noted a rise in C. auris infections. Researchers believe that exhausted healthcare workers, o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 18, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth.
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 15, 2021
Earth & The Environment
A novel approach to predicting global climate forecasts has been described in the journals Earth System Science Dat
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 11, 2021
Earth & The Environment
An overlooked aspect of glacial melt could be key to improving sea-level rise models. We often think of glacial melt as
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
Coral reefs besieged by climate change and pollutants have a new line of defense against disease-an antibiotic commonly
...
Written By:
Anne Medina
JUN 04, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Two new studies suggest that Earth’s most recent ice age, which occurred approximately 20,000 years ago, was not q
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Science reports on the discovery of a massive shark die-off - nearly 19 million ye
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 02, 2021
Earth & The Environment
As hard as it is to imagine, the rolling dunes that we picture now when we think of the Sahara used to be quite differen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 29, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have that there was four times more soot in the pre-industrial Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere than pre
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 28, 2021
Earth & The Environment
While we typically consider global warming to have detrimental impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, new research publ
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 23, 2021
Microbiology
In the world of microbes, organisms like viruses and bacteria get a lot of attention. But researchers are beginning to s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch