A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming worsens.
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New Research Reveals How El Nino Caused The Greatest Ever Mass Extinction
Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research.
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Ice Planet Update: Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low – Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
Editor’s note: we live on a world that is mostly an ocean world, part Icy world, part desert world etc. Other worlds in our solar system exhibit both similar and […]
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Iceworld Update: Grim Outlook For Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet continues to retreat as a UK-US group of scientists reveal new findings about how and when it might suddenly move towards collapse.
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Carbon Dioxide Has Driven Drastic Changes In Earth’s Global Temperature Over The Past 485 Million years
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million […]
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Explaining Dramatic Planetwide Changes After The Last Snowball Earth Event
Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet’s history are “Snowball Earth” events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased […]
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Ice World Update: Weather Anomaly Experienced In Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique region of Antarctica, nearly devoid of snow and ice. An atmospheric river event in March 2022 led to record warm temperatures over much […]
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Ice World Update: How Earth’s Record Breaking Intense Heat Wave Impacted Life In Antarctica
Summer 2024 is on track to be the hottest on record for hundreds of cities across the U.S. and globe. Even in Antarctica, during the peak of its winter, extreme […]
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Viral Secrets From Glacial Ice Reveal Climate Adaptations
Researchers at The Ohio State University have made a significant discovery in understanding how viruses preserved in glacial ice have adapted to Earth’s climatic changes.
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Locked In A Glacier, Viruses Adapted To Survive Extreme Weather
For decades, the Guliya Glacier, located above 20,000 feet in the far northwestern Tibetan Plateau, has been one of the richest archives available to scientists to investigate large-scale paleoclimate shifts. […]