Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost a quarter of their volume in the past decade alone, a study warned Wednesday, heightening concerns over accelerating melting.
Environment
Oct 1, 2025
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Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical wintering grounds in South America.
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2025
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How often do you mow your lawn in winter? That may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought. But the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain—and why spring lamb ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2025
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Much to the surprise of Sydney-siders, a dusty haze settled over the city on Tuesday morning after a week of heavy rain.
Environment
May 28, 2025
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Understanding how lakes exchange heat and moisture with the atmosphere is crucial for regional water resource management and sustainable development. A China-Finland research team has shed light on this dynamic process by ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2025
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Using the Very Large Array (VLA), an international team of astronomers have observed a nearby galaxy merger known as CIZA J0107.7+5408. Results of the observational campaign, presented December 20 on the preprint server arXiv, ...
The West Coast's rainy season has arrived in force, as an atmospheric river carrying moisture from the tropics joins a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. Heavy, wet snow began falling in the mountains on Nov. 19, ...
Environment
Nov 21, 2024
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One woman has died, schools have been shuttered and tens of thousands of people were without power Monday, as wild storms lashed Australia.
Environment
Sep 2, 2024
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Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get?
Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2024
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New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the roiling storms at the planet Jupiter's polar regions are powered by processes known to physicists ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 6, 2024
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