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September 20, 2024
The sun is about to perform another vanishing act over North America, transforming day into night through a total solar eclipse. On April 8, the peak moment will have a duration of 4 minutes and 28 seconds in the area of complete darkness, which is double the length of the total solar eclipse that darkened
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Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family have persevered through toxic dust storms, political unrest, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in order to continue their livelihood of farming melons, pumpkins, and tomatoes around the Aral Sea in Muynak, Uzbekistan. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life near Muynak, in northwestern Uzbekistan, tending the land.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming. Now, a jury is about to decide whether the comments were defamatory. On Wednesday, the final statements were given in a legal case involving Michael Mann.
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A team of astronomers has discovered strong evidence indicating the presence of a large, newly-formed ocean hidden beneath the frozen surface of a Saturnian satellite resembling the infamous Death Star. A team led by French scientists studied the alterations in Mimas’ orbit and rotation and released a report on Wednesday stating that there is most
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A minimum of 112 individuals have lost their lives due to wildfires in central Chile, prompting the country’s president to announce two days of national mourning. This tragedy follows Colombia’s declaration of a state of emergency due to wildfires. Experts claim that the effects of climate change are increasing the occurrence of heat waves and
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Several extremely strong tropical storms in the past ten years and the likelihood of even more in the future has led some experts to suggest a new classification for massive hurricanes: Category 6. Recent research has indicated that the impact of climate change has resulted in an increase in intensity of the most powerful tropical
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On Monday, Camila Lange, who is currently seven months pregnant, sat with her husband and dog in their former home in Vina del Mar, Chile. In the central coastal region of the country, hundreds of houses have been demolished due to fires that have resulted in the deaths of at least 112 individuals. Extreme weather
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The scientists at the biggest particle collider in the world, located in Geneva, stated their belief on Monday in proceeding with a multi-billion euro venture to construct a larger and more advanced collider that could potentially reveal new secrets of the universe. Officials from CERN, the European research organization for nuclear physics, have announced that
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Several ancient sponges, dating back centuries and found deep in the Caribbean, have prompted some researchers to consider the possibility that human-induced climate change began earlier and has had a greater impact on global warming than previously believed. They calculate that the world has already gone past the internationally approved target of limiting global warming
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On Sunday, Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, announced that Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has surpassed the world record for the longest total time spent in space. The individual, aged 59, has been in space for a total of 878 days and 12 hours, surpassing the previous record of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48
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