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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
Climate

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

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...

Convective clouds forming over the Amazon in a blanket smoke. Image: Prof. Ilan Koren
No Limits to Human Effects on Clouds
08.06.2014
Planetary Science, Environment, Climate

Weizmann Institute research shows how atmospheric particles affect cloud formation in real...

rain
Let it Rain
16.02.2012
Environment, Energy, Climate

Added particles in the atmosphere could be affecting rainfall patterns

Dust to Gust
Dust to Gust
26.12.2006
Environment, Climate

The health of the Brazilian rain forest depends on dust from one valley in Africa

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Prof. Atan Gross and the Austrian dancer Olivia Hild. Photos: Roya Meydan

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Expanding the Limits of the Possible
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Patterns of epigenetic markers revealed by EPINUC on blood nucleosomes (bright-red dots)
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