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Faster ice melt in Antarctica may lead to more coastal flooding

Daisy Hips

Ice sheets in Antarctica are melting faster than models predicted – likely undermined by warming water beneath them, new studies ...

How Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier is melting

Daisy Hips

A study released this week added new fears to the fate of an important glacier in Antarctica and its impact ...

Report ranks pollution in cities, metros

Elaine Hadley

Air quality on high alert: Explaining the dangers of red flag warnings Air quality is impacted by numerous factors. Here’s ...

Negative leap second may be needed to adjust for Earth spinning slower

Daisy Hips

Leap seconds are added because if Earth is rotating slower over millions of years then a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) ...

Driving an EV becomes a political choice as Biden, Trump views diverge

Barbara Terrio

Climate change and EVs: How will future cars stem global warming? Electric vehicles have become a hot trend. But how ...

Viral polar bear on ice photo a reminder of climate change effects

Carol Dennis

A stunning photo of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History ...

The World and Everything in It: January 19, 2024

Gregory Daniels

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. I’m Maegan from beautiful rural Kentucky, wife ...

With Arctic permafrost thawing, Pentagon frets over deadly pathogens

Debi Johnson

Expect ‘more intense heatwaves’ as a result of climate change Weather experts at the World Meteorological Organization said there is ...

Climate change effects threaten sharks, studies find. Here’s why.

Daisy Hips

The ocean’s most feared but fascinating predators face increasing dangers from the world’s warming oceans, scientists found in two international ...

Vampire bat habitat expansion increases risk of rabies, study says

Debi Johnson

There is a new study about vampire bats that, while perfectly timed for Halloween season, is raising alarms for the ...

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