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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Water occupies 70 percent of the earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a long scientific debate. The puzzle was solved a step closer Thursday after a French team reported in the magazine Science they had identified which space …
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Greenland’s ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that puts it on an irreversible path to disappear completely. Snowfall that normally fills the glaciers of Greenland every year can no longer keep up with the rate of ice melting, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This means that …
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Technology that can turn salty seawater into brackish water into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives around the world, which is why so many scientists are working on projects to do just that. Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be …
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FILE PHOTO: Water flows through Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam as it undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region, Ethiopia, September 26, 2019. Photo taken on 26 September 2019. REUTERS / Tiksa Negeri / File Photo CAIRO / KHARTUM (Reuters) – Egypt and Sudan criticized …
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