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  • Brit scientists have received funding to examine the hypothesis that the weather is manipulated by cloudborne microbes that have evolved the ability to influence climate to their survival advantage.

    Boing Boing: May 26, 2002 - June 1, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Moreover, certain cloudborne bacteria - the French team identified at least 17 types - degraded organic pollutants to carbon dioxide at least as efficiently as the sun did.

    Wired Top Stories Janet Raloff 2011

  • The sharpness, movement, and orientation of hexagonal, cloudborne ice crystals determine a sun dog's shape, sharpness, and color.

    National Geographic News 2009

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