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A Major Alarm Is Flashing Under Greenland’s Ice
Climate change would be much worse if it weren’t for the oceans, which have absorbed 90 percent of the excess…
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The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and…
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Tonga eruption is still revealing new volcanic hazards
It’s clear that Hunga involves an unusually explosive formula that may not be easy to replicate. In about a month,…
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A new NASA satellite will map Earth’s rising seas
SWOT could turn out to be a huge improvement over previous satellite measurements. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’ traveling along…
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If humanity went extinct, would a similar species evolve?
The strong rise of new technology means that humanity has to face the danger of its own extinction. For example,…
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Vast groundwater system helps fuel Antarctic glaciers
Lake Whillans is a strange mass of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it. Despite…
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Extreme temperatures in the ocean are out of control
The depth of the ocean plays a big role in how affected areas are. While the depths in the mid-Pacific…
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A chaotic injection solves a decades-old liquid mystery
Liquids can roughly divided into two categories: the regular type and the exotic type. Common substances, like water and alcohol,…
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Old climate clues shed new light on history
Originally this story Appears on Yale environment 360 and be part of Climate table cooperation. Joseph Manning, a professor of…
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Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning
So Dwyer and his team turned to the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of small radio telescopes…
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