Image: Curious – Shutterstock. Scientists working in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water under a glacier the size of Florida that is already melting and sea level rising. The researchers, working on Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the base of the ice of more than …
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Shutterstock. Moscow has placed artificial snow on Red Square to cheer its neighbors up for the holidays, as global warming is expected to cause Russia to experience its hottest December ever. Passers-by were stunned to see the snowdrifts on Red Square and Tverskaya Street, Moscow’s main street, over the weekend, …
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Arenal Volcano. Costa Rica. Photo: Esdelval / Shutterstock The President of Costa Rica announces the “Beautiful Task” of eliminating fossil fuels from his country, to make way for renewable energies. Carlos Alvarado, the new president of Costa Rica, announced the « titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of …
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The world’s largest rainforest ecosystem, Amazonia, will collapse into a dry, scrubby plain by 2064 due to climate change and deforestation, a University of Florida professor predicts. That prediction, published in the journal Environment, gives the most specific date yet for the overall demise of the Brazilian ecosystem, according to …
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