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Power of US tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create Monday's massive killer tornado in Oklahoma. The awesome amount of energy released dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled ...
13 hours ago from Phys.org
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Ancient underground lake isolated from the rest of the world for 2.7 billion years discovered in Canadian mine - but does it contain life?
Scientists have discovered an ancient pocket of water trapped deep beneath the ground which could have been isolated from the rest of the world for up to 2.7 billion years – making it the ...
Wed 15 May 13 from The Independent
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Climate change will push up New York's heatwave deaths
There will be more deaths in summer and fewer in winter as climate change begins to bite in New York City. The net effect is not good news
17 hours ago from Newscientist
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Comprehensive analysis of impact spherules supports theory of cosmic impact 12,800 years ago
About 12,800 years ago when the Earth was warming and emerging from the last ice age, a dramatic and anomalous event occurred that abruptly reversed climatic conditions back to near-glacial ...
16 hours ago from Phys.org
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Glacier melt causes third of sea-level rise
BIG MELT: Water from the world's shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009, shows new research.
Thu 16 May 13 from ABC Science
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Warming extremes 'not as likely'
Global temperature rises will be slower in the coming decades say researchers but the long term picture is consistent.
Sun 19 May 13 from BBC News
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Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
(Phys.org) —Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world's tallest peak is ...
Tue 14 May 13 from Phys.org
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Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest
(Phys.org) —The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually ...
Mon 20 May 13 from Phys.org
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Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak, researchers say
The massive ball of iron sitting at the center of Earth is not quite as "rock-solid" as has been thought, say two Stanford mineral physicists. By conducting experiments that simulate the immense ...
Fri 17 May 13 from Phys.org
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New Milestone for CO2 Levels: Mauna Loa Observatory Records 400 PPM
We've hit 400 ppm of carbon dioxide, but we won't know what that means for decades.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Scripps Institution of Oceanography say that the carbon ...
Fri 10 May 13 from MIT Technology Review
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