Earth science

Earth science

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  Ice sheets melting at poles faster than before

  Fueled by global warming, polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now melting three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific ... 

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  Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year

  An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline ... 

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  UN climate scientist: Sandy no coincidence

  Though it's tricky to link a single weather event to climate change, Hurricane Sandy was "probably not a coincidence" but an example of the extreme ... 

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  Scientists: Galapagos tortoise can be revived

  Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his ...