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Improving wind power for energy production

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Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon STEVE

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Powerful particles and tugging tides may affect extraterrestrial life

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Predicting heat waves? Look half a world away

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UNH researchers find unusual phenomenon in clouds triggers lightning flash

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Tracking a supercell thunderstorm across the Great Plains

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UW researcher contributes to study showing arctic warming contributes to drought

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Southern Ocean acidification puts marine organisms at risk

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Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life

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A clearer view of past climate from tree rings

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Ice-free Arctic summers could happen on earlier side of predictions

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World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon

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Climate change makes summer weather stormier yet more stagnant

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Novel hypothesis goes underground to predict future of Greenland ice sheet

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Study: Climate change reshaping how heat moves around globe

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Study predicts how air pollutants from US forest soils will increase with climate change

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Indian Ocean may be more disruptive to tropical climate than previously believed

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Experiments at PPPL show remarkable agreement with satellite sightings

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Atmospheric scientists find causes of firenado in deadly Carr Fire

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Uneven rates of sea level rise tied to climate change

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Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages'

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Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol

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Half of the world's annual precipitation falls in just 12 days, new study finds

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NSF, Popular Science announce this year’s Vizzies winners

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Severe Caribbean droughts may magnify food insecurity

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Atmospheric scientists begin field campaign to study extreme thunderstorms in Argentina

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Predicting Seasonal Weather

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Tracking the movement of the tropics 800 years into the past

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Wildfire aerosols remain longer in atmosphere than expected

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High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects

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