Can drinking tea help us understand climate change?
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 06:01
in Earth & Climate
For the price of a cup of tea, or perhaps several, we are making strides towards better understanding climate change thanks to Judith Sarneel, a researcher at Umeå University in Sweden, and her colleagues: Joost Keuskamp, Bas Dingemans, Taru Lehtinen, and Mariet Hefting. Sarneel developed the Tea Bag Index—a simple and reliable way to figure out the speed at which decomposition occurs. The Tea Bag Index is now being rolled out in a massive, global citizen science campaign with the goal to strengthen our understanding of global decomposition patterns and better inform climate models.