Sky above San Francisco was the color of television, corresponding to the president. To be fair, I stole it Punch line Vaguely published from Twitter, and vaguely published about Donald Trump’s alleged clear choices of his makeup, will not fix North America’s worst fire season on record. About 100 fires …
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Trees move on the High Street in Bogifacio Global City, Taguig. February 18, 2020. Jonathan Celona, ABS-CBN News / File LONDON – Fast-growing trees are dying small and are at risk of releasing carbon dioxide that challenges forecasts that will be a “sink” for forest-planet-temperature emissions, scientists said Tuesday. The …
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While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they are actually so much more than that. They help us deepen things, feed trees nitrogen, play an enormous role in cycling the earth’s nutrients, and survive extreme extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and thin packages of life …
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Earth is a truly magical place. We know it’s not the kind of thing you would expect to read on a science website, but just a look at the photo above – a pre-dawn photo taken by an Expedition 62 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS) back in …
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At 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Mark Licht sat in his home outside Ames, Iowa, for a conference call with other agronomists and meteorologists from around the state. Iowa had a dry spell, the western half of the state was hit by severe drought. What farmers needed was a big storm, …
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