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Why don't we feed the plastics to the termites?
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How authentic was the movie scene in "The day after tomorrow" related to the understanding of the north Atlantic current system?
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Question about the sign of the shearing deformation terms
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How plausible is it that "a portion of the ocean's floor" could suddenly be "thrown up to the surface" as described in this Lovecraft story?
Awarded May 16 at 8:37
Can the dew point temperature be more than drybulb temperature?
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What is "qflux" and why is it important for climate models?
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In cities, is the pollution level higher on higher floors?
Awarded May 14 at 21:41
Plotting a mineral stability diagram
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Would a nuclear explosion over one of the Earth’s magnetic poles momentarily disrupt/weaken the Earth’s magnetic field?
Awarded May 13 at 3:08
Why do the Siberian methane craters have smooth vertical walls?
Awarded May 12 at 12:18
Is there a way to convert from Dip direction to Strike direction?
Awarded May 11 at 12:17
How much water will flow into the Caspian Sea if it is connected to the World Ocean?
Awarded May 9 at 22:08
Dew point variation in a day
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Is there more water in solid form than in liquid form on earth?
Awarded May 5 at 18:20
Is Bowen ratio an absolute indicator of land surface type based on the amount of heat transfer from the surface?
Awarded May 2 at 5:34
Specific humidity range in tropical lowlands?
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Feedback loops between soil chemistry and plant growth
Awarded Apr 27 at 21:40
Is it a coincidence that the circumference of the Earth in kilometers is almost $2^{12}$?
Awarded Apr 25 at 10:47
Adiabatic lapse rate
Awarded Apr 18 at 21:17
In the northern hemisphere summer, why are places in the north cooler than those in the south?
Awarded Apr 18 at 16:10
How Hot was the Oligocene?
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Is Hudson Bay part of the Arctic or the Atlantic Ocean?
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How do we compensate the water that is being taken out of water cycle for curing of concrete in infra construction?
Awarded Apr 1 at 16:32
How is relative humidity determined from a wet and dry bulb readings?
Awarded Mar 31 at 4:46
ERA5 mean evaporation rates data - Why is that negative?
Awarded Mar 28 at 9:18
How much water gets consumed by residential use versus all other uses?
Awarded Mar 27 at 19:18
In general, does the presence of vegetation increase/decrease gross water loss (evapotranspiration) compared to barren land (evaporation only)?
Awarded Mar 25 at 15:21
How does soil fertility differ between Scandinavia and Russia
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How did plants adapt to $\small\sf{CO_2}$ levels past 400k years? Why won't they do it again?
Awarded Mar 22 at 23:36
Why does Morocco have so much phosphate?
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Taking into account the decay products of transuranic elements, are the world's uranium reserves growing or shrinking?
Awarded Mar 18 at 16:03
What is are the benefits of map 500 hPa geopotential for weather forecasting?
Awarded Mar 18 at 7:21
How many mole of oxygen gas is there in the atmosphere?
Awarded Mar 14 at 8:42
Did the Haber-Bosch process enable the population explosion?
Awarded Mar 11 at 16:16
Can anyone explain the reason why CO$_2$ increases global temperatures (not the simplistic greenhouse analogy provided for public consumption)?
Awarded Mar 9 at 17:15
What is the (average) velocity of ocean currents?
Awarded Mar 2 at 23:02
How much energy released by the Theia-Gaia impact?
Awarded Mar 2 at 11:08
What is the impact of divergent tectonic plates on old mountain ranges?
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Can I use diamonds as fossil fuel?
Awarded Feb 23 at 18:12
Can the Bering Sea Rule be used to predict the weather?
Awarded Feb 22 at 16:26
How do weather services measure wind
Awarded Feb 21 at 17:17
How much land does it take to support New York City?
Awarded Feb 21 at 17:10
Volcanic eruption force
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How much of one day can be considered nighttime, on average?
Awarded Feb 20 at 6:56
Is volume of air increasing as CO2 levels increase?
Awarded Feb 17 at 1:36
Could a natural fission reactor form in Cigar Lake?
Awarded Feb 16 at 19:50
Hypothetically, would digging a big trench from the ocean and flooding desert areas be a bad solution to combatting sea level rise? [duplicate]
Awarded Feb 15 at 1:50
How do I convert a latitude/longitude coordinate to a NOAA GFS grid cell location?
Awarded Feb 10 at 23:25
How this sedimentary rock is made?
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How good were climate models of the 1990s at predicting the global temperature trends of the 2000s/2010s?
Awarded Jan 31 at 12:50
Why don't errors accumulate in climate models when the time horizon increases?
Awarded Jan 31 at 0:27
Ozone layer and radiation absorption
Awarded Jan 30 at 7:36
How can I test my house water supply for hydrocarbon presence?
Awarded Jan 28 at 20:32
What if we detonated the entire worlds nuclear supply in the center of the earth? [closed]
Awarded Jan 27 at 21:36
Geothermal instead of fossil and nuclear?
Awarded Jan 25 at 14:45
Could the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum have been caused by intelligent life forms?
Awarded Jan 24 at 14:22
What conditions could produce 50 km long lava tubes?
Awarded Jan 23 at 20:48
Why is Somalia so dry?
Awarded Jan 22 at 14:07
Why does the emission of aircrafts at higher altitudes have a greater effect on the climate?
Awarded Jan 17 at 10:16
Why are there no volcanoes where continents collide with each other?
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