Chances are pretty good that you have not been obsessively tracking the profound amount of  heat that has built up in the Arctic Ocean over the past few seasons.  That being the case, it is almost a certainty that you have not been looking at how all that anomalous heat is interacting with the atmosphere and affecting things such […]

A new study out this week looks at the loss of agricultural soil around the world due to the build-up of salt in the soil.  Reading the article, it was not at all clear to me if the researchers looked at just salt (sodium chloride) or if they also looked at “salts” or chemical residues broadly included […]