Water is a very strange thing. In our everyday experience, when liquid water falls below 0 ° C (32 ° F or 273.15 Kelvin), it becomes OK, freezes in solid form. But the snow, it turned out, is also rather strange. Most of the time, the ice seems to be …
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Scientists call it the Doomsday Glacier. That’s partly because Britain-sized glacier whites in West Antarctica are melting at an alarming rate: retreating by about half a mile (2,625 feet) each year. Scientists estimate that glaciers will lose their ice in about 200 to 600 years. When that happens, it will …
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Uranus, not far from Earth in the darkest region of the solar system’s reach, is not alone. With it is a spell of the moon – 27, precisely. Far and obscure, this moon is difficult to study, but astronomers have made accidental discoveries while observing Uranus. According to infrared images …
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After a record-breaking Labor Day weekend with temperatures in the 90s and 100s in the South Rocky Mountains, winter suddenly appeared in Colorado on Tuesday morning, according to CBS Denver reports. Denver officially broke the record with 101 degrees on Saturday, set a record with 97 degrees on Sunday, and …
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More than half of the ice sheets hitting Antarctica are preventing huge glaciers from entering the ocean and raising sea levels due to climate change, researchers said Wednesday. Due to the warm air, the molten water flowing in the deep rupture damages the structural integrity of this natural barrier. Nature. …
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