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Looking for freshwater in all the snowy places

Snow's water content, or snow water equivalent (SWE) is a “holy grail for many hydrologists,” said Bart Forman, the project's principal investigator and a…

Do ice cores help to unravel the clouds of climate history?

For the first time, an international research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) has investigated atmospheric ice nucleating…

How antibiotic resistance persists thanks to selfish genetic elements

Parts of the genetic information of many microorganisms are located on so-called plasmids. These are genetic elements which consist of a single DNA ring, and…

Marine oil snow

If you were able to stand on the bottom of the seafloor and look up, you would see flakes of falling organic material and biological debris cascading down the…

Magnetism discovered in the Earth’s mantle

The huge magnetic field which surrounds the Earth, protecting it from radiation and charged particles from space – and which many animals even use for…

Climate driving new right whale movement

New research connects recent changes in the movement of North Atlantic right whales to decreased food availability and rising temperatures in Gulf of Maine's…

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