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Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of the earth’s climate

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Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of the earth’s climate

A hole filled with water from melted ice is seen among black rock and ice on the Rhone glacier amid climate change in Obergoms, Switzerland, August 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change….

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Scientists in Chile question if Antarctica has hit a point of no return

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Scientists in Chile question if Antarctica has hit a point of no return

An iceberg floats near Two Hummock Island, Antarctica, February 2, 2020. Picture taken February 2, 2020. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nearly 1,500 academics, researchers and scientists specialising in Antarctica gathered in southern Chile for the 11th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research conference this week to share the most cutting-edge research from the vast white continent….

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Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface

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Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface

Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater.  | Photo Credit: S Rambabu/The Hindu Under your feet lies the world’s biggest reservoir. Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater. Where is it? In the voids between grains and cracks within rocks. We see it when it rises to the surface in…

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Australian weather bureau sees 50% chance of La Nina this year

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Australian weather bureau sees 50% chance of La Nina this year

A La Nina would have significant consequences for global agriculture because it typically brings wetter weather to eastern Australia and southeast Asia and drier conditions to the Americas. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar/The Hindu There are early signs that a La Nina weather event may form in the Pacific Ocean later this year, Australia’s…

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Iceland’s ‘Mammoth’ raises potential for carbon capture

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Iceland’s ‘Mammoth’ raises potential for carbon capture

A plaque for “Mammoth”, the new plant of Swiss start-up Climeworks is pictured in Hellisheidi, Iceland on May 8, 2024. A Swiss start-up unveiled on May 8, 2024 its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of…

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Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago

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Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago

Around five and half millenia ago, northern Africa went through a dramatic transformation. The Sahara desert expanded and grasslands, forests and lakes favoured by humans disappeared. Humans were forced to retreat to the mountains, the oases, and the Nile valley and delta. As a relatively large and dispersed population was squeezed into smaller and more…

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2023-24 El Nino among five strongest on record, will continue fuelling heat in 2024: WMO

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2023-24 El Nino among five strongest on record, will continue fuelling heat in 2024: WMO

A woman pours water on her head as bathers enjoy a summer day due to the high temperatures at Agua Dulce beach in the Chorrillos district in Lima, Peru, February 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The 2023-24 El Nino has peaked as one of the five strongest on record and will continue to impact…

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Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

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Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

This GOES-West GeoColor composite satellite image provided by The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a storm moving over California and the Western U.S. on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of…

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