Environment

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What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill? Science

What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill?

Supervolcano calderas are massive craters formed when colossal eruptions drain underground magma chambers, causing the surface to collapse. Scientists...

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How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species Science

How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species

From ROV dives to decades-long taxonomy backlogs, the process of finding and naming unknown ocean life is a race against extinction in Earth's last gr...

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How Direct Air Capture Works—and Why It's So Hard Technology

How Direct Air Capture Works—and Why It's So Hard

Direct air capture technology pulls carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere using chemical sorbents and solvents, but enormous energy demands and...

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Why AI Data Centers Use So Much Energy Technology

Why AI Data Centers Use So Much Energy

AI data centers consume up to ten times more electricity than traditional facilities, driven by power-hungry GPUs, massive cooling systems, and round-...

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What Is a Kona Low and Why It Floods Hawaii Science

What Is a Kona Low and Why It Floods Hawaii

Kona lows are cold-core cyclones that reverse Hawaii's normal wind patterns, pushing moisture-laden air into the islands from the southwest and trigge...

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How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time Science

How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time

Melting polar ice redistributes mass from the poles to the equator, slowing Earth's rotation and lengthening days by milliseconds per century—with rea...

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What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping Science

What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping

Earth's albedo — the fraction of sunlight our planet reflects back to space — is declining to record lows, accelerating global warming through powerfu...

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Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific Science

Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific

An international team of 16 experts has described 24 new amphipod species in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including an entirely new superfam...

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How Osmotic Power Works—and Why It Could Run 24/7 Technology

How Osmotic Power Works—and Why It Could Run 24/7

Osmotic power harvests electricity from the natural mixing of saltwater and freshwater. Unlike solar or wind, it runs around the clock—but scaling up...

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Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030 Science

Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030

The German government has adopted its new climate protection program, but experts warn that the measures are insufficient to achieve the legally manda...

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works Science

What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works

Earth absorbs more energy from the Sun than it radiates back to space. This growing gap, called the energy imbalance, is the master metric behind glob...

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