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Smoke near Australia

How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the World

18.03.2021

Environment, Climate

A study uncovers how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivaling that of a volcanic eruption

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

26.11.2020

Nearly invisible, all-but-ignored areas of thin cloud cover raise temperatures below

root

The Soil Talks Back

07.05.2020

Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Climate

Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

hot water

How Hot Was the Ocean?

19.08.2019

Environment, Climate

Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created

diatoms

Survival of the Fewest

08.08.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

How do a handful of marine microorganisms live through a major crash?

Ice formation

Can an Antifreeze Protein also Promote Ice Formation?

14.03.2019

Chemistry, Climate

New research shows that some antifreeze proteins can do both

Yatir station

Standing up to the Heat

10.01.2019

Plants and Agriculture, Climate

A new method of measuring how forests moderate the climate gets tested under extreme conditions

satellites

CT for Clouds: A Fleet of Micro-Satellites Will See into the Smallest Clouds

17.12.2018

Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Environment, Climate

An Israeli-German mission to launch a formation of ten tiny satellites that use medically-inspired CT algorithms to answer climate questions wins a €...

Fragments of phytoplankton outer shell

In Passing, Plankton Reach the Clouds

25.10.2018

Planetary Science, Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Climate

When viral infection wipes out an algal bloom, fragments may turn airborne, increasing clouds and cooling the surface below

Illustration: Trees in Africa

Dry but Fruitful: Semi-Arid Forests Could Offset Climate Change

29.01.2018

Environment, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Planting trees in some surprising places could increase rainfall and lower atmospheric carbon

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