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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 24, 2019Plants & Animals
The idea of having your body frozen solid and then thawed out sometime in the future sounds like something straight out ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 24, 2019Plants & Animals
While most people are familiar with the penguins that reside in colder climates, some species, such as the African pengu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 24, 2019Earth & The Environment
The discovery of more than 100 UK containers with the false label “Recycling” has outraged Sri Lankans and b ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 24, 2019Microbiology
In recent years, the fungus Candida auris has emerged as a growing public health threat. The infection is usually seriou ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 22, 2019Earth & The Environment
To be a scientist also is to be a dreamer – to think outside of the paradigms that we humans have constructed in o ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 21, 2019Earth & The Environment
Mountaineer Bryan Mestre wasn’t expecting to run into a lake formed from glacier melt while on a hike recently in ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
Ever heard of huanglongbing? While more commonly referred to as citrus greening disease, huanglongbing (HLB) is threaten ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 18, 2019Earth & The Environment
Joshua trees are iconic of southern California deserts and have survived for 2.5 million years in harsh desert condition ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 17, 2019Earth & The Environment
Air pollution in China poses a health concern to many of the nation’s almost 1.4 billion people. Ozone pollution i ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 15, 2019Earth & The Environment
A variety of environmental stressors threaten the world's coral reefs, most notably increases in water temperat ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 15, 2019Earth & The Environment
Male loggerhead turtle populations of Cape Verde are under particular threat of extinction due to the odd fact that the ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 12, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Large underground networks of roots forage the earth for nutrients and water. Although we have been familiar with this p ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 12, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Plants use their roots to collect essential nutrients. We may one day be able to use those roots to store carbon undergr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 10, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series suggests that coral reefs, like other ecos ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 07, 2019Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 07, 2019Space & Astronomy
Several planetary bodies in the solar system are of particular interest to planetary scientists because they may teach u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 07, 2019Health & Medicine
Babesiosis is a vector-borne disease in which the parasite, Babesia, is transmitted through the bite of a tick, or rarel ...Written By: Dena ArutaJUL 07, 2019Plants & Animals
Bats are an essential part of any ecosystem because they help keep irritating pests, such as mosquitoes, at bay. Unfortu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 04, 2019Chemistry & Physics
The year 2019 turns out to be a critical year for hydrogen. Just before the G20 summit in Japan, the International ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUL 02, 2019Earth & The Environment
While attention has been focused on climate-related changes occurring in the Arctic, a dramatic turn of events happened ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 01, 2019Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 27, 2019Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 24, 2019Earth & The Environment
A study published earlier this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes the term futur ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 24, 2019Earth & The Environment
A recent study combining 40 years of satellite observations across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, shows that the rate o ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 24, 2019
Plants & Animals
The idea of having your body frozen solid and then thawed out sometime in the future sounds like something straight out
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 24, 2019
Plants & Animals
While most people are familiar with the penguins that reside in colder climates, some species, such as the African pengu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 24, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The discovery of more than 100 UK containers with the false label “Recycling” has outraged Sri Lankans and b
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 24, 2019
Microbiology
In recent years, the fungus Candida auris has emerged as a growing public health threat. The infection is usually seriou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2019
Earth & The Environment
To be a scientist also is to be a dreamer – to think outside of the paradigms that we humans have constructed in o
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 21, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Mountaineer Bryan Mestre wasn’t expecting to run into a lake formed from glacier melt while on a hike recently in
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Ever heard of huanglongbing? While more commonly referred to as citrus greening disease, huanglongbing (HLB) is threaten
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 18, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Joshua trees are iconic of southern California deserts and have survived for 2.5 million years in harsh desert condition
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 17, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Air pollution in China poses a health concern to many of the nation’s almost 1.4 billion people. Ozone pollution i
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 15, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A variety of environmental stressors threaten the world's coral reefs, most notably increases in water temperat
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 15, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Male loggerhead turtle populations of Cape Verde are under particular threat of extinction due to the odd fact that the
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 12, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Large underground networks of roots forage the earth for nutrients and water. Although we have been familiar with this p
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 12, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Plants use their roots to collect essential nutrients. We may one day be able to use those roots to store carbon undergr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 10, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series suggests that coral reefs, like other ecos
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Several planetary bodies in the solar system are of particular interest to planetary scientists because they may teach u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 07, 2019
Health & Medicine
Babesiosis is a vector-borne disease in which the parasite, Babesia, is transmitted through the bite of a tick, or rarel
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
JUL 07, 2019
Plants & Animals
Bats are an essential part of any ecosystem because they help keep irritating pests, such as mosquitoes, at bay. Unfortu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 04, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
The year 2019 turns out to be a critical year for hydrogen. Just before the G20 summit in Japan, the International
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 02, 2019
Earth & The Environment
While attention has been focused on climate-related changes occurring in the Arctic, a dramatic turn of events happened
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 01, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 27, 2019
Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 24, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A study published earlier this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes the term futur
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 24, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A recent study combining 40 years of satellite observations across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, shows that the rate o
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan