A stifling summer heat wave will take over an unusually vast swath of the nation this week. 270 million people, representing 84% of the continental US population, will see peaks above 90 degrees for at least one day this week, and for most, it will be several days. At one …
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The conversationJuly 02, 2020 2:28:09 PM IST Jules Verne sent his fictional submarine, the Nautilus, to the South Pole through an ocean hidden under a thick layer of ice. Written 40 years before any explorer had reached the pole, its story was, however, only half-fiction. In fact, there are hidden …
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Heat waves have increased in both length and frequency in almost all parts of the world since the 1950s, according to what is described as the first study to analyze the problem at the regional level. The study found that heat wave escalation varied across the planet, with the Amazon, …
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Paraphrasing a famous “presenter”, he quickly dropped. Coal suffered a historic drop in use last year. Buyers paid producers up to $ 37 a barrel of crude oil in April. The price of plastics has dropped about half in the past four years. The fossil fuel economy, which functioned happily …
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The earth heats up relentlessly. Therefore, it is strange that there is a persistent “cold drop” in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The cold drop (also known as a “warming hole”) is like a dazzling pimple, easily evident on recent NASA surface temperature maps. Overall, the ocean’s surface has …
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