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Saima May Sidik

A dust storm that hit Phoenix in 2011
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rethinking How Valley Fever Spreads

by Saima May Sidik 20 January 20229 September 2024

Scientists have long assumed that dust storms lead to infections with the desert soil fungus Coccidioides, but new evidence suggests otherwise.

Air pollution from an Australian megafire on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, in January 2020.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Australian Megafires

by Saima May Sidik 10 January 202222 February 2023

Models suggest that thousands of Australians experienced dangerous levels of air pollution for several months, leading to more than a hundred deaths.

Looking across Midwestern cropland, the viewer sees a tornado extending down from thick, gray-blue clouds to meet the horizon. To the tornado’s left, a funnel cloud companion looks like a thin finger pointing toward Earth from the bottom of the clouds.
Posted inNews

A Hotter Earth Means Stronger Tornadoes

by Saima May Sidik 13 December 202113 December 2021

Although their frequency may decrease, models suggest anthropogenic climate change will increase the intensity of tornado outbreaks.

SAIL site in Gothic, Colo..
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Collaboration in the Rockies Aims to Model Mountain Watersheds Worldwide

by Saima May Sidik 21 September 202129 March 2023

As Earth’s climate changes at an unprecedented rate, the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory is studying precipitation on an unprecedented scale.

Munazza Alam walks through the Atacama Desert near Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
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Munazza Alam: Searching for New Worlds

by Saima May Sidik 24 August 202123 March 2023

A starstruck New Yorker studies the skies.

A climate reference station in the Nevada desert consisting of precipitation gauges surrounded by wooden fencing with solar-powered equipment nearby. Shrubs and brush dot the foreground and background.
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A Global Monitoring System Could Change the Future of Climatology

by Saima May Sidik 26 March 20218 March 2022

Researchers hope that a network of highly consistent climate-observing sites will resolve long-standing issues with climatological data.

Smoke rises from a singed landscape, meeting the clouds above a swath of boreal forest punctuated by lakes.
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Feedback Loops of Fire Activity and Climate Change in Canada

by Saima May Sidik 8 December 20201 April 2022

New research documents how a warming climate contributes to patterns in wildfire severity and frequency and how the fires contribute to climate change.

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