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Fantastic fungi found with ability to freeze water

The foundational research discovers a new class of fungal ice nucleating proteins with bacterial ancestry.

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Cloud seeding is when airplanes release into the clouds particles that can trigger the water in the clouds to turn into ice crystals. One potential application of the fungi discovery could be to engineer weather. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock.

Waters of tomorrow

While the Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is consistently predicting the next 30 days of conditions, it’s also looking further into the future of ecosystem forecasts by working to fill the education gap between researchers and water managers

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