Warm weather boosts hopes for rarest bumblebee's revival in Britain

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Originally Published by The Guardian- Warm spring conditions should help Britain’s rarest bumblebee as wildlife experts reintroduce a new batch of queens to help boost the species. The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000.

Improving Numerical Weather Prediction Models and Data-Access Latencies

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The data center community must work to allow researchers more time to spend on analyzing results and less time coding and worrying about file formats and data transfers. We identify some of the existing limitations of traditional archives, discuss examples of model data diagnostics, and explore the many benefits of providing archive-based computational resources on peta-scale databases.

Reflecting on Earth’s albedo

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Originally Published by ESA– The amount of sunlight being absorbed or reflected by Earth is one of the driving forces for weather and climate. Satellites are providing this information with unprecedented accuracy.