Topic: Earth Monitoring
In 2005, scientists from the United Kingdom camped out in northern Africa to study the dustiest place on Earth.
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City dwellers feast on plant-derived resources
Posted Jan 28, 2007 in Earth Monitoring download Help
City dwellers feast on plant-derived resources
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Bruce Wielicki told Earth & Sky, “People may look around and say, this hasn’t changed so much. This has got to be right, what I see in my backyard. It takes a longer time, unfortunately, for a warming trend to come out of the signal. So unless they’re willing to trust the science community to tell them what the bigger picture is, if they’re waiting for their own backyard to show it, unfortunately they’re not going to see it … “
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In 2005, a team of seven scientists from the U.K. braved dust storms and extreme heat to collect data samples from the Bodele depression in the African country of Chad.
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Climate scientist: “I was the kid who loved storms”
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