A substance implicated in several mass extinctions could greatly enhance plant growth, with implications for global food supplies biofuels, new UW research shows.
A key to mass extinctions could boost food, biofuel production
April 17, 2013
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Recent Antarctic climate, glacier changes at the ‘upper bound’ of normal
April 14, 2013
In recent decades the thinning of glaciers at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated, but new UW-led research indicates the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
Changes in cloud distribution explain some weather patterns
February 28, 2013
Regional cloud changes may be as important for climate change as the overall amount of cloud cover.
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