The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent weeks dragging their sleds …
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Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague
by Adminby AdminJet streams are strong winds that blow high above Earth’s surface NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio …
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Conventional high-voltage transmission lines lose a portion of the electric energy as heat Limbofu/Shutterstock The …
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Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs
by Adminby AdminA domestic pig in the New Forest, UK 9 Deborah Lee Rossiter/Shutterstock Ancient DNA unearthed …
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Seawater is pumped onto the snow covering the sea ice in an effort to thicken …
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Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon’s worst-ever drought
by Adminby AdminA fire rages in the Brazilian rainforest on 4 September MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images …
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Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
by Adminby AdminThe melting of Thwaites glacier is expected to accelerate International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration A six-year …
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Special electrodes will produce hydrogen fuel directly from seawater
by Adminby AdminSeawater could be a source of clean hydrogen fuel Tamara Kulikova / Alamy For the …
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Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years
by Adminby AdminIllustration of pterosaurs over a Cretaceous landscape, in a time when Earth was warmer than …
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People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent
by Adminby AdminPrivate jet use increases an individual’s carbon footprint Michael Edwards/Getty Images People consistently underestimate the …