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Cool Jobs: Green Science
Scientists get at the root (and stem, leaf, flower, fruit and seed) of the relationship between plants and their environment
Posted in Agriculture, Plants, STEM Careers
Tagged air pollution, air pollution control, albedo, allelopathy, arabidopsis, benzene, Bill Wolverton, birch, botany, climate change, contaminants, cool jobs, ecology, feature, forests, formaldehyde, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse effectPlants, herbicide, houseplants, Joseph Jez, juglone, Labrador, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, plant chemistry, plants, Pollination, pollinator, Quebec, rice, seeds, Serge Payette, sorghum, spruce, topstories, transpiration, tree line, trees, trichloroethylene, tundra, Université Laval, Washington University, weed killers, X-ray crystallography
Weird weather
Global warming helped trigger heat waves and droughts last year
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged American Meteorological Society, Chris Funk, climate change, crop losses, David Rupp, East African drought, getinvolved, global warming, greenhouse effect, La Nina, Oregon State University, severe weather, starvation, Texas drought, Thailand flooding, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS
A Feverish World
Science News for Kids: The second of a two-part series on climate change
Posted in Earth
Tagged carbon dioxide, deforestation, ecology, Fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
A Change in Climate
Global warming may be wiping out some plants and animals or pushing them into new habitats.
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