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Today you’ll learn about the recent eruption of the world’s biggest active volcano, how researchers have created wifi-emitting windows, and how we might be able to use evaporating ocean water as a new freshwater source. 

Mauna Loa Eruption 

• “Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting. Here’s what you need to know” by Carolyn Gramling
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hawaii-mauna-loa-volcano-erupting-what-you-need-to-know
• “Mauna Loa Eruption Webpage” By Mauna Loa
  • https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/mauna-loa-eruption-webpage
• “Historic Keeling Curve Observation Interrupted by Volcanic Eruption” by Rob Monroe
  • https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2022/11/29/historic-keeling-curve-observation-interrupted-by-volcanic-eruption/
• “Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984” By James Dinneen and Madeleine Cuff
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348871-hawaiis-mauna-loa-volcano-is-erupting-for-the-first-time-since-1984/
• “HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE” by U.S. Geological Survey
  • https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates#:~:text=Mauna%20Loa%20is%20no%20longer%20erupting.

Wifi Windows 

• “Your windows may soon produce wireless Internet connections powered by sunlight” by Camille Bello
  • https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/12/07/your-windows-may-soon-produce-wireless-internet-connections-powered-by-sunlight
• "Smart" Electricity Generating Windows Are On Their Way” by Cecille de Jesus
  • https://futurism.com/smart-electricity-generating-windows-are-on-their-way
• “Electricity-Generating Windows Of Future? Scientists Design Low-Cost Transparent Solar Cells” by Anjali Thakur
  • https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/electricity-generating-windows-of-future-scientists-design-low-cost-transparent-solar-cells-3497478
• “This company wants to turn your windows into solar panels” By Rishi Iyengar
  • https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/solar-windows-ubiquitous-energy-california/index.html

Catching Vapor 

• “Researchers propose new structures to harvest untapped source of freshwater” by Peter Barnes
  • https://www.shutterbulky.com/harvesting-untapped-source-of-freshwater/
• “Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security at scale” by Afeefa Rahman, Praveen Kumar & Francina Dominguez
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24314-2
• “Water Vapor and Climate Change” by ACS
  • https://www.acs.org/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html

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