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Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt	Space Dust and Snowball Earth Within the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy are thousands of giant clouds of dust. Some researchers now say that these clouds collide with Earth every 140 million years, possibly explaining the causes of two distinct periods of widespread glaciation in the planet's geologic past.
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Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater.
Chemistry World October 13, 2010 James Urquhart	Aerosol theory solidifies An international team of researchers has found that atmospheric aerosol particles long thought to be liquid can in fact be amorphous solids. The discovery could improve atmospheric models and climate predictions.
Chemistry World August 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Organic aerosol mystery solved Scientists believe they may have cracked an important conundrum in atmospheric chemistry: how a volatile molecule released by plants helps to form aerosols that can have a profound effect on weather and climate systems.
Geotimes March 2007 Nicole Branan	Volcanic Signatures Reveal Climate Clues Besides providing a new tool to look at the climate impact of past volcanic eruptions, a new study also brings atmospheric scientists a step closer to unraveling the chemistry that sulfur aerosols undergo while they are in the stratosphere, which could help improve climate models.
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start.
Chemistry World July 6, 2009 Ned Stafford	Sulfate-coated soot boosts global warming Sulfate and nitrate particles in the atmosphere are thought to help combat global warming because they reflect sunlight, but a new study suggests that when combined with soot the particles could instead enhance global warming.
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Titanium oxides in stellar clouds finally pinned down After decades of searching, astronomers at last appear to have found two key components of the dust that forms around stars -- the oxide and dioxide of titanium.
Popular Mechanics July 2, 2009 Andrew Moseman	The Truth About Water on Mars: 5 New Findings Phoenix reveals much about water, but there's a lot left to learn -- especially about the big question: the possibility of life in Mars.
Wired October 2009 Mike Olson	Weather Geeks Champion New Armageddon-Worthy Cloud Strange, ominous-looking clouds of late dubbed undulatus asperatus are a new anomaly that may be the newest entry into the International Cloud Atlas.
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Popular Mechanics August 21, 2008 Emily Gertz	Desert Storm Watch: Scientists Observe Saharan Dust to Predict the Next Big Hurricane Season A University of Wisconsin researcher and his team have connected the dry, windswept plains of the Sahara to the intensity of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman	How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready.
CIO February 20, 2015 Bob Violino	5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Hybrid Clouds Start planning now. Whatever cloud technology it has today, a company is likely to end up with a hybrid cloud in the near future.
Chemistry World August 1, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Whirling Dust Devils Bust Martian Methane Snow storms of hydrogen peroxide might sound like an easy way to go platinum blonde, but their existence on Mars could help solve the conundrum about levels of methane gas in the martian atmosphere.
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IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Willie D. Jones	New Sensor Shows Electric Nature of Dust Devils Electric field sensor could help in climate studies and electronics manufacturing too.
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