Oceans
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The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells
Fossils by Heartless Machine. In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the ...
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Cleaning up CO2 emissions could be worth millions | Lisa Zyga
Schematic representation of a possible future C2CNT station that uses solar thermal power to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into carbon nanotube wool. Credit: Johnson et al. ©2017 ...
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Tardigrades: The last survivors on Earth | David Sloan, Rafael Alves Batista, and Abraham Loeb
Tardigrade. Source: BBC July 14, 2017 (Phys.org) -- The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun ...
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Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP
Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf ...
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Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl
A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact ...
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Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' | M.H. Walczak et al
A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASAJuly 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists have identified patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000 ...
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Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow | Jörg Hasenclever et al
Model of an island volcano. During the last transition to glacial conditions the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Jörg ...
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Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute
A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further ...
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Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana ...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos
Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ...
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Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 | Daniel DeNoon
Fossil fish. By John Marsh. Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Nov. 2, 2015 (CBS) -- The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ...
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