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Category Archives: Climate
GLOBE’s long history – what can you learn from GLOBE’s long-term data?
GLOBE celebrated its 18th birthday on Earth Day, 22 April 2013. This means that, in some cases, you can look at nearly 18 years of data collected through the years by GLOBE students. One school, Zakladni Skola – Ekolog. Praktikum … Continue reading
Connecting pollutants and air temperature in the Maldives
With climate change, there are many relationships that are understood, and many others that are not. Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan from The Scripps Institute in San Diego has spent the last fifteen years in the Maldives, a nation south of India that … Continue reading
The wolverine: new proposals may renew hope in their survival
A couple of years ago, I attended a seminar sponsored by the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on how climate change is threatening the survival of wolverines (Gulo gulo). This scientist, Synte Peacock … Continue reading
An interesting relationship: soil temperature and climate change
It seems common place that warmer air temperature leads to warmer soil temperature. And while this relationship seems intuitive, the effect isn’t always studied, especially with respect to the response from microorganisms. That is why researchers are investigating what happens … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Climate Change, Earth System Science, General Science, Soil
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Trees in trouble: what affect does tree mortality have on climate change
Through our trees in trouble series, we’ve examined trees in the Sahel zone in Africa and the United States. This problem, climate change and dying trees, has been seen on every continent, the only exception being Antarctica, due to the … Continue reading
Posted in Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Earth System Science, Land Cover
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