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<div><font face="Geneva">In celebration of snow and winter as we know
it, and in a look at what winter may be like in the future, the
National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a new special report:
Let It Snow! The Science of Winter.
<<http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/>></font></div
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The report focuses on projects supported largely by NSF's Directorate
for Geosciences and Directorate for Biological Sciences/Division of
Environmental Biology.</font></div>
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Grants from these areas fund research on subjects as diverse as
measuring snowfall; tracking snowstorm "bombs," as whiteouts
are known in meteorology; studying animals and plants that live
beneath the snow in an ecosystem called the subnivian; searching for
snowmelt, or "white gold"; and the bane of winter -- dust
from the atmosphere that causes snow to melt before its
time.</font></div>
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Go winter storm-chasing, enter nature's igloo</font></div>
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In the report, explore such topics as winter storm-chasing, a conifer
tree's view of snow, life in nature's igloo, and where our winters
have gone.
<<http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/>></font></div
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"But we need to be clear, the large-scale predicament and the
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has very little to with fraud, corruption and the greed of a tiny few.
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