Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planting more trees is often seen as one of the simplest ways to fight climate change, and it is. But a new study from UC ...

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New research from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds tropical cyclones cause ocean turbulence that extends deeper than previously thought, causing mixing that ...