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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .

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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Physics World

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. When they strike the Earth’s atmosphere they create a secondary shower of particles, including neutrons, muons, pions and alpha particles.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands

Our Environment

Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. The addition of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and their effect on global temperature also strengthens existing climatic patterns, such as cyclones, floods, droughts and heatwaves. should be. [4] should be. [4]

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

Also last week, the news broke that Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down the 2009 EPA finding that global warming gases endanger public health and the environment. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

Also last week, the news broke that Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down the 2009 EPA finding that global warming gases endanger public health and the environment. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.