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An Elusive Gravity Signal Could Mean Faster Earthquake Warnings
Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out…
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A Vast Underground Water System Helps Drive Antarctica’s Glaciers
Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at…
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Climate change may increase risk of new infectious diseases
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and it’s likely to…
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Heads to Cape Canaveral
In 2011, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and a couple of colleagues wrote a paper exploring ideas about how tiny would-be planets called…
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Weary of many disasters? UN says worse to come
A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world,…
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Without Russia, science going solo on world’s woes, dreams
PARIS — Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they’ll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the…
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UN sets 5-year goal to broaden climate early warning systems
The chief of the United Nations has announced a project to put every person on Earth in range of early…
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Hot spring forecast: Drought deepens in West, flooding ebbs
U.S. government forecasters see a hot, dry spring for much of the nation with drought in the West likely deepening…
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Italy seeks to study, sample Europe’s southern-most glacier
Italian scientists are racing against time to study, scan and sample Europe’s southernmost glacier before it melts and disappears as…
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The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastier
Climate change will continue to make allergy season longer and more intense By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer March 15,…
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