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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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JAN 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
For several days, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles was warning of an extremely dangerous wind event that woul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
How can climate change impact apple production in the United States? This is what a recent study published in Environmen ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
How did the 2024 climate, and specifically extreme weather, impact the global water cycle? This is what the 2024 Global ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 07, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 03, 2025Earth & The Environment
When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaci ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term 'atmospheric river' to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that mig ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 18, 2024Earth & The Environment
How can rivers determine the long-term fate of the world’s water supply? This is what a recent study published in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 17, 2024Earth & The Environment
What is the cost of one additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted, officially called the social cost of carbon (SCC)? Thi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 10, 2024Earth & The Environment
How can tree placement impact urban temperatures? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & En ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 10, 2024Earth & The Environment
According to NASA, the hottest years on record are the ten most recent years, and 2023 was the warmest on record since p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 09, 2024Earth & The Environment
How does climate change influence the speed that Arctic coastal regions are retreating? This is what a recent study publ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 08, 2024Earth & The Environment
High temperatures are known to be a killer, and historically, it is not unusual for extreme heat to cause tens of thousa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
How much does sulfur emitted by marine life cool the atmosphere and help mitigate the effects of climate change? This is ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
How soon will the Arctic summer months experience an ice-free environment, meaning no frozen seawater will exist in the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 02, 2024Earth & The Environment
Uppsala University scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological infl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have already said that 2024 will be the hottest recorded year, and 2023 had already set a record for being 2. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2024Earth & The Environment
Are cities around the world taking steps to provide adequate canopy cover from available trees to help mitigate increase ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 14, 2024Earth & The Environment
While the Earth has experienced countless climate variations during its long history, a longstanding hypothesis known as ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
How is California’s rapidly shrinking Salton Sea contributing to dust pollution in the Golden State? This is what ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
What is the level of carbon emissions across the United States? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances ho ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
How does climate change impact permafrost forests? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the Natio ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
In August 2024, the Tangier 1 instrument by the Carbon Mapper Coalition was launched into space. It is a satellite that ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 18, 2024Earth & The Environment
What pace do ecosystems respond to climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evoluti ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
For several days, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles was warning of an extremely dangerous wind event that woul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can climate change impact apple production in the United States? This is what a recent study published in Environmen
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How did the 2024 climate, and specifically extreme weather, impact the global water cycle? This is what the 2024 Global
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 07, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 03, 2025
Earth & The Environment
When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaci
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term 'atmospheric river' to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that mig
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How can rivers determine the long-term fate of the world’s water supply? This is what a recent study published in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What is the cost of one additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted, officially called the social cost of carbon (SCC)? Thi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 10, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How can tree placement impact urban temperatures? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & En
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 10, 2024
Earth & The Environment
According to NASA, the hottest years on record are the ten most recent years, and 2023 was the warmest on record since p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How does climate change influence the speed that Arctic coastal regions are retreating? This is what a recent study publ
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 08, 2024
Earth & The Environment
High temperatures are known to be a killer, and historically, it is not unusual for extreme heat to cause tens of thousa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How much does sulfur emitted by marine life cool the atmosphere and help mitigate the effects of climate change? This is
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How soon will the Arctic summer months experience an ice-free environment, meaning no frozen seawater will exist in the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 02, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Uppsala University scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological infl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have already said that 2024 will be the hottest recorded year, and 2023 had already set a record for being 2.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Are cities around the world taking steps to provide adequate canopy cover from available trees to help mitigate increase
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 14, 2024
Earth & The Environment
While the Earth has experienced countless climate variations during its long history, a longstanding hypothesis known as
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How is California’s rapidly shrinking Salton Sea contributing to dust pollution in the Golden State? This is what
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What is the level of carbon emissions across the United States? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances ho
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How does climate change impact permafrost forests? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the Natio
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In August 2024, the Tangier 1 instrument by the Carbon Mapper Coalition was launched into space. It is a satellite that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What pace do ecosystems respond to climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evoluti
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc