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London, UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2024 - Scientists are set to explore Antarctica's underwater avalanches, also known as turbidity currents, in an international effort to understand their role in Earth's climate regulation. The Antarctic C
Dec 6, 2024
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2024 - Mangroves have been shown to provide $855 billion in flood protection services worldwide, according to a new study from the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz. The research, cond
Dec 6, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2024 - Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and record-breaking marine heatwaves defined 2023 as a year of extraordinary climate shifts. The global average temperature soared to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius
Dec 6, 2024
Washington (AFP) Dec 6, 2024 - US President-elect Donald Trump named political ally and former Georgia senator David Perdue as his pick to be ambassador to China, a key trade partner the Republican has promised to impose punishing tariffs on.
Dec 6, 2024
Beijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - Thirteen people are missing after a cave-in at a construction site for a major railway in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, local authorities said Thursday.
Dec 5, 2024
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of California sparked a brief tsunami warning on Thursday, with residents warned to flee to higher ground before the alert was cancelled.
Dec 5, 2024
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - A central component of the drama around the trade deal South American countries want to seal with the European Union is the Brazilian beef industry and its practices.
Dec 5, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 - A major leap in desalination technology could help billions of people worldwide access freshwater, thanks to an innovative method that accelerates seawater evaporation more effectively than freshwat
Dec 5, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 5, 2024 - The 150 million-year-old fossil remains of a Stegosaurus dinosaur named Apex will be displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City starting Sunday.
Dec 5, 2024
London, UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 - A new study led by researchers from University College London reveals that two massive asteroid impacts that occurred approximately 35.65 million years ago had no long-term effect on Earth's climate
Dec 5, 2024
Lisbon (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - Portugal has experienced its hottest-ever November, the country's meteorological agency the IPMA said Thursday, the average air temperature 2.69 degrees Celsius higher than the average for 1981-2010.
Dec 5, 2024
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 - A mysterious object discovered in the main asteroid belt in 2021 was determined to be a main-belt comet by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie In
Dec 5, 2024
Reykjavik (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - Iceland, one of only three countries still allowing whale hunting, on Thursday issued permits to two whaling companies for the next five years, until 2029, the outgoing government announced.
Dec 5, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 - In an era of increasing extreme weather events and natural disasters, NASA's C-20A aircraft is playing a vital role in collecting data to improve disaster response and prediction efforts. Operated f
Dec 5, 2024
Zurich (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - In a year set to be declared the hottest on record, natural disasters caused $310 billion in economic losses globally in 2024, as climate change increasingly takes its toll, Swiss Re said Thursday.
Dec 5, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2024 - Severe drought stoked rampant wildfires across North and South America this year and churned up record carbon pollution in Bolivia, Nicaragua and the Pantanal wetlands, according to new data from Europe's climate monitor.
Dec 5, 2024
