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Large tundra wildfire in southwest Alaska threatens villages

ENVIRONMENT
The largest documented wildfire burning through tundra in southwest Alaska was within miles of two Alaska Native villages, prompting officials Friday to urge residents...

Methane emissions detected over offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico

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A team of scientists have used satellite data to detect methane plumes from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the...

New study finds extreme, severe drought impacting the upper Colorado River basin in the second century

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The drought currently impacting the upper Colorado River Basin is extremely severe. A new study from federal government and university scientists led by the...

New study shows how ‘green islands’ help forests regenerate after fire

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Thanks to climate change, high-elevation forests in the Central Cascade mountains of the Pacific Northwest are burning more frequently and expansively than in the...

New map shows seabed of the Southern Ocean in unprecedented detail

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The features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents move and how they affect our climate. Biodiversity is also...

Greece evacuates Athens suburb under wildfire threat

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A wildfire whipped by gale-force winds blazed through vegetation in a southern suburb of Athens on Saturday, the fire brigade said, forcing residents to...

NOAA forecasts average-size Gulf of Mexico summer ‘dead zone’

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A team of scientists including a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist is forecasting a summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico of 5,364...

Which forces control the elevation of mountains?

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Scientists have come up with a new classification scheme for mountain belts that uses just a single number to describe whether the elevation of...

Why is it so cold in Australia right now? And how long will it last?

ENVIRONMENT
Anyone living in the southeast of Australia will have noticed the chill that has set in the last few days. After relatively mild conditions...

Experts: Everything points to another busy hurricane season

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Batten down the hatches for another nasty hurricane season. Nearly every natural force and a bunch of human-caused ones—more than just climate change—have turned the...

Research shows how the Gulf of Mexico escaped ancient mass extinction

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An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf...

Antarctica’s only active volcano shows how CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes at the surface

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Antarctica has long been a land of mystery and heroic feats made famous by the explorations of James Ross, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and...
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