Plants may not store carbon for as long as we thought

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In July 1945, the United States detonated the first plutonium bomb. That Trinity test launched decades of nuclear weapons … Read more

Earth continues to break global heat records

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? It makes you wonder: How hot can the Earth get? Is there a theoretically higher average global temperature? Well, … Read more

The flow of ground jets helps create cloud seeds

Satellite image of clouds blown by the jet stream.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Previously, scientists have thought that most of the formation of new particles occurs in regions of the atmosphere where … Read more