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Earth Is Getting Dimmer—and the Northern Hemisphere Is Losing Brightness Faster Than Scientists Expected
New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...
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The Earth is getting darker
The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the ...
Microscopic life thrives kilometers beneath Earth's surface, surviving on chemical reactions in rock and water. These ...
The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery ...
For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, scientists say those measurements indicate a disturbing trend — the ...
A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...
The U.S. and India just sent a powerful new set of radar eyes into the sky. The NISAR satellite, a joint mission of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) lifted off today (July 30) ...
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Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...
Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet Although ...
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