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- December 18, 2020
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Melting freshwater icebergs raise critical questions about ocean circulation. However, to find answers to what’s happening on ocean surfaces, some scientists are searching ocean floors
- July 25, 2020
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For the past few weeks I have been taking photographs of changing food habits, cooking, areas of trash and places that remind me of all
- December 26, 2019
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The locked office of the late climate scientist Wallace “Wally” Broecker displays a wooden ship’s wheel, mounted on a window-paneled wall behind his former desk.
- November 15, 2018
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Climate change is rapidly taking the world as we know it into uncharted territory. What we do next and how quickly we do it can
- January 30, 2018
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- October 31, 2017
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Richard Alley smiled widely, beer in hand, as he welcomed a group of student journalists to the annual Comer Climate Conference this fall. "I bet
- December 16, 2016
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Without the little notches, plastic ketchup packets are almost impossible to open no matter how much you pull or tear. Cracks in the world’s ice
- November 22, 2016
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Sea level rise – a direct impact of a warming climate and melting ice – threatens island nations and coastal communities across the world.
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- July 5, 2016
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Aaron Putnam of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine is searching for the switches that caused the Earth to lurch out of
- December 8, 2015
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A mystery from some 18,000 years ago directly impacts how scientists understand the threat of climate change today.
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