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What’s with those melting ice shelves in Antarctica? We explain
First the Larsen A ice shelf crumbled, then the Larsen B. Now scientists are keeping close tabs on Larsen C, which is the size of Scotland.
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Scientists will never build a perfect climate model, but that’s OK
These NASA scientists live above Seinfeld's diner and predict the future.
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In search of artificial muscles, scientists have turned to onions
How squishy robots of the future could one day be made of gold-plated onion skin.
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Drought ended the Maya empire. Is California next?
If you thought America's drought problems are bad now, wait 'til you see what it can do to an entire civilization.
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Predicting the climate is hard. So one scientist wants to cut corners
Climate models take an enormous amount of time and energy to run, and they still aren't perfect. Here comes "inexact" modeling.
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These 2 heroic scientists died while studying the climate
Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo were studying the Arctic's lowest winter ice cover on record. Then they fell through it.
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Dear climate scientists: Just tell it to us straight, please
This researcher is calling out climate scientists for watering down their work to appease politicians.
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These satellites are keeping an eye on California’s underground water
To the list of benefits satellites offer us, we can now add "monitoring our disappearing water."
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We just hit 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, for a whole month
We should be trying to get down to 350 ppm, if we want to avoid the worst of climate chaos, but instead the CO2 concentration keeps rising.
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New EPA carbon rules would save thousands of lives, science says
The Obama administration's proposed rules for power plants could save nearly 5,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone.