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Should a primary consumer always be a herbivore?
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why continents do not subduct
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What is the effect of rising sea level on measurements of elevation?
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Geode-like rock but it's empty inside. Why does this happen?
Awarded Sep 29 at 22:41
What is the History of the Brooks Range?
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FLUXNET15 - how to convert latent heat flux to actual evapotranspiration?
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Does subduction of continental crust happen at continental-continental convergent boundaries?
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What's the difference between snow cover and fractional snow cover?
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What happens if it rains above the boiling point of water?
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does silt form from sand ; does clay form from silt
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Classification of rivers according to width
Awarded Sep 9 at 20:15
Do Tectonic Plates Merge?
Awarded Sep 7 at 11:35
Why do P waves have a higher velocity in the lower mantle than in the core even though the core has a much higher density?
Awarded Sep 7 at 8:18
Electricity in clouds and induced magnetism
Awarded Aug 29 at 0:32
Can ionospheric plasma disturbances effect the weather?
Awarded Aug 28 at 11:25
What's the official reason why it became so hot in the Kola borehole?
Awarded Aug 26 at 9:12
Is there a way to approximate the density of air during rain?
Awarded Aug 22 at 23:18
Take all the CO2 in the atmosphere and put it into a layer on the surface of earth, how thick would the layer be?
Awarded Aug 22 at 17:36
Are there any (land) hills/mountains with bases below sea level?
Awarded Aug 22 at 13:10
Sun's Effect on Water Vapor in the Air
Awarded Aug 18 at 19:26
Why is the Coriolis effect zero near the equator?
Awarded Aug 18 at 10:07
Why divide total insolation by $4$?
Awarded Aug 17 at 23:48
Is global warming nonsense? [closed]
Awarded Aug 5 at 19:17
What is a wind chill formula that will work from -10 C to +50 C and uses wind speed in km/h?
Awarded Aug 3 at 22:25
The free oxygen (O$_2$) in the atmosphere is largely a result of what process?
Awarded Aug 3 at 9:27
Where can I get historic hourly precipitation data for Italy?
Awarded Aug 3 at 7:34
Do tornadoes usually avoid areas with many tall buildings?
Awarded Jul 31 at 13:55
Underground temperature record
Awarded Jul 30 at 19:41
Why can't we dig deeper?
Awarded Jul 26 at 18:03
How do you determine the age of >60 year old water?
Awarded Jul 25 at 20:57
How was it possible that CO2 levels were higher nearly 650,000 years ago?
Awarded Jul 25 at 9:18
How hot the earth will be if we have 20% CO2 in the atmosphere instead of ~0.04? and how cold would it be if doesn't have any CO2?
Awarded Jul 25 at 9:06
What is the most optimal latitude on Earth for the generation of extreme maximum temperatures?
Awarded Jul 24 at 13:05
Typical values of Glen flow law for glaciers?
Awarded Jul 24 at 13:05
Why had climate change not been proven beyond doubt for so long?
Awarded Jul 20 at 23:05
Rainfall units conversion from depth to rate/intensity
Awarded Jul 20 at 9:36
Why do colder climates have more rugged coasts?
Awarded Jul 19 at 3:08
What is this Sun and moon photographic anomaly?
Awarded Jul 18 at 9:21
Why are salt domes suitable for the final disposal of nuclear waste?
Awarded Jul 15 at 2:07
Water vapor content versus specific humidity
Awarded Jul 14 at 15:04
What are these undersea lines all around Hawaii?
Awarded Jul 14 at 10:06
Crystallization path of diopside-wollastonite-silica systems
Awarded Jul 12 at 4:03
Which percentage of $\text{CO}_2$ emissions are human made emissions?
Awarded Jul 10 at 19:05
Why is the pressure on the poles higher in Summer and lower in Winter?
Awarded Jul 4 at 4:26
What are the causes of lower UV radiation at lower elevations?
Awarded Jul 3 at 8:49
Are there sufficient quantities of limestone to dump in the ocean to reverse acidification?
Awarded Jun 28 at 18:41
Sea Level Rise due to Climate Change
Awarded Jun 28 at 9:15
Why does the colour of Earths oceans vary?
Awarded Jun 28 at 0:08
Why is mass fraction always abbreviated wt% and not ma%?
Awarded Jun 26 at 7:32
Which type of plant absorbs the most net carbon dioxide per year per square km?
Awarded Jun 24 at 4:32
Why is the colour gradient in the sky at sunset on an angle?
Awarded Jun 24 at 0:50
Where did the atmosphere's nitrogen come from? [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 22 at 14:01
Is there a recent global gridded temperature dataset with 0.1 deg resolution?
Awarded Jun 20 at 19:56
Is it safe to keep volcanic sulfur at home?
Awarded Jun 20 at 10:22
Does the amount of UVA radiations one receives depend on the day ot the year?
Awarded Jun 18 at 20:35
Convert NO2 concentration in Sentinel-5P data from mol/m2 to μg/m3 on the ground level
Awarded Jun 17 at 5:51
How to search for the nearest non nan value in 2d xarray dataset
Awarded Jun 15 at 21:52
Does the Plate tectonics contradict the theory of continental drift?
Awarded Jun 14 at 15:17
What does supersaturation with respect to ice mean?
Awarded Jun 14 at 6:00
Why is the part of the earth tilted towards the sun warmer? Which factors matter more?
Awarded Jun 13 at 3:32
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