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Oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

2020-05-29 10:56:10| Green Car Congress

Parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise

2016-02-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday. Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth's continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science. This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent,...

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Snow Soaks Up Pollutants, Says New Study from Montreal

2016-01-21 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: Snow. Is it paying for our environmental sins? That is, like all things next to roadways and in urban environments, snowflakes are picking up pollutants from the air in cities. But they're doing it in a particularly efficient way, like a pollution sink, says a recent study. In fact, those findings from snow-capital Montreal, Canada indicate that, while "snow ice cream" and downing a part of the potential snowman are both appealing, snow is not for eating. That is, the study team found that...

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USDA Weather recap: Rain soaks Midwest, Plains

2015-08-28 18:17:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Rain soaked much of the Upper Midwest, providing a generally favorable boost in soil moisture for corn and soybeans in areas where little rain had fallen during the first half of August. Scattered showers dotted the remainder of the Corn Belt, accompanied by a turn toward cooler weather. read more

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