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Supervolcano eruption mystery solved
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to understand what causes so-called supervolcanoes to erupt.
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Climate fix could make warming worse
Attempts to reverse the impacts of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the stratosphere could make matters worse, say researchers
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Triangular Snow Crystal
The Schwerdtfeger Library Summary Author: Jim Foster Not all snow crystals look like the ones on store-front windows. The odd, triangular crystal featured above has arms that are obviously unequal in length, but it still has a hexagonal shape.
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Plan to avert global warming by cooling planet artificially 'could cause climate chaos'
A controversial proposal to cool the planet artificially by injecting tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere which block out sunlight would cause droughts and climate chaos in the poorest countries of the world, a study has found.
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So What's the Deal with the Polar Vortex?
While the cold temperatures have been unusual and even deadly, climate data shows that intense cold such as this event is now occurring far less frequently in the continental U.S. than it used to. This is largely related to winter warming trends due to manmade global warming and natural climate variability.
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Old Mighty
This lone tree holds its ground proud and gracefull among the towering stone cliffs of Zion national park,Utah
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Top 10 facts you might not know about extreme weather
Just a month ago, scientists announced that they'd found the coldest place on Earth: a high ridge in the East Antarctic Plateau where it was minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Ice caves, near and far
These caves maintain a freezing temperature year-round. Combined with moisture, the chill can make for stunning and varied ice formations. Grab a hot cup of tea and wrap up in a warm blanket-- these coldly beautiful images of nature's finest ice caves may leave you with goose-bumps.
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The Confluence of Rivers
Photographer: Dave Lynch; Dave’s Web site Summary Author: Dave Lynch When two rivers flow together, there’s usually a difference in water color that persists downstream of their confluence until the color of the large river comes to dominate.
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Scientists discover giant trench under Antarctic Ice
The research involved scientists from Newcastle University, the University of Bristol's Glaciology Centre, the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Edinburgh, Exeter, and York. They charted the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands – an ancient mountain range buried beneath several kilometres of Antarctic ice - by combining data from satellites and ice-penetrating radars towed behind skidoos and on-board small aircraft.
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Trees become more powerful as they age
It turns out that trees share a fundamental property with the universe itself. The the older they get, the more quickly they expand. A new study reveals that older trees grow more quickly than their younger counterparts. They are better carbon sinks, too. But why?
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Big glacier's retreat 'irreversible'
Antarctica's mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is now very probably in a headlong, self-sustaining retreat. This is the conclusion of three teams that have modeled its behavior. Even if the region were to experience much colder conditions, the retreat would continue, the teams tell the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Climate change the state of the science (data visualization)
Produced by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Globaia and funded by the UN Foundation. The data visualization summarises and visualizes several of the most significant statements in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) recent Fifth Assessment Report, (Working Group I summary for policymakers, the Physical Science Basis). In 2014, IPCC will publish summaries concerning societal impacts, mitigation and adaptation.
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Global Warming Has Top Six Offenders
It is not a natural inclination to be listed on an offenders list, but unfortunately the top six countries in the world are responsible for global warming issues. Society is divided and continue to debate the true source of global warming. Most people believe global warming is the result of human-made pollution into the atmosphere. Other people disagree stating global warming is not real and is a make-believe phenomena.
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Satellite to give Earth health check
The date has been set for the roll-out of the European Union's multi-billion-euro Earth observation project.
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Blood Falls and other natural oddities
Earth never stops surprising us. Every corner of the planet offers some sort of natural peculiarity with an explanation that makes us wish we'd studied harder in junior high Earth science class.
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Giant Trench Under Antarctic Ice Deeper Than Grand Canyon
Scientists probing the icelands of West Antarctica have discovered a subglacial pit that is deeper than the Grand Canyon. The researchers were charting the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands-an ancient mountain range buried beneath several miles of Antarctic ice-by combining data from satellites and ice-penetrating radar towed behind snowmobiles and onboard small aircraft.
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El Ninos Could Double as the Pacific Warms
Twice as many of nature’s troublesome children, the El Niños, could arrive to cause havoc in the coming century.
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Earth Won't Die as Soon as Thought
Take a deep breath—Earth is not going to die as soon as scientists believed. Two new modeling studies find that the gradually brightening sun won’t vaporize our planet's water for at least another 1 billion to 1.5 billion years—hundreds of millions of years later than a slightly older model had forecast. The findings won’t change your retirement plans but could imply that habitable, Earth-like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought.
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Three Ways the Right-Wing is Trying to Convince You that Climate...
Climate change denial is big business, with a recent report finding that the majority of the rhetoric was fueled by millions of dollars of so-called ‘dark money,’ or funders who remain in the shadows while using others to promote their agenda. During the recent cold snap that froze out...
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