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The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

If water is the key to life, then oxygen is the key to animal life. All animals breathe oxygen. Despite decades of research, however, scientists still don’t know when Earth’s atmosphere held enough ...

Tree branches, tree trunks, mud, and building materials were deposited by a debris flow after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado. Credit: USGS/Jason Kean, Public Domain Months after wildfires ...

An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

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