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Climate Change Explained in Under a Minute [Video]

Benji Jerew — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:15:45 +0000

If someone were to ask you to explain climate change and why you believe it exists, how long do you think it would take? Really, climate change isn’t all that complicated, and you don’t even need any charts. The only thing you need to know is the role of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, carbon […]

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Global Carbon Cycle Affected by Forests Migrating North

Mila Luleva — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:46:03 +0000

A study published in the latest issue of Science suggests that changes in climate have influenced the global carbon cycle. The evidence was gathered from the high latitudes in the Northern hemisphere, where the changes in the seasonal flux were most highly pronounced. The researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego observed […]

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Behavior of Marine Microbes Reveals Changes in Global Carbon Cycle

Mila Luleva — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:27:40 +0000

A team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was granted $1 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative, to study changes in the carbon cycle due to food, consumed by marine microbes. The method, which will be tested by Xavier Mayali, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, both from LLNL, and a team […]

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