A new study predicts that, as the climate continues to warm over the next decades, tens of thousands of square miles of Antarctica will lose their protective covering of ice, making valuable deposits ...

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Scientists testing a popular climate theory in Antarctica found that melting glaciers deliver far less iron to the ocean than ...

The United States listed emperor penguins as an endangered species in 2022 because multiple studies project large population losses, to near-extinction, this century under continued warming. About a ...

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A dense network of sensors is looking for the fleeting footprints of neutrinos, the most mysterious in the pantheon of known particles.

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