Fact check: Human-driven global warming increased Larsen ice shelf melt
The claim: Study shows that 'CO2 emissions play no role' in Antarctic Larsen ice shelf melt
The claim: Study shows that 'CO2 emissions play no role' in Antarctic Larsen ice shelf melt
Environment
Oct 20, 2022
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Small sulfate particles of diameters 0.4 µm or less from anthropogenic sources could have had a cooling effect on the climate in the 1970s, by triggering cloud formation and reflection radiation.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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About 2 billion years ago, an impactor hurtled toward Earth, crashing into the planet in an area near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor—most likely an asteroid—formed what is today the biggest crater ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 26, 2022
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Around 21,000 years ago, ice sheets retreated from the Northern Hemisphere, and great swaths of land were unburdened by the weight of glaciers. Even today, Earth's shape is still changing as the land rebounds, causing effects ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2022
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Using data collected over two decades ago, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have compiled the first complete map of hydrogen abundances on the Moon's surface. The map ...
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2022
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The story of our solar system's origin is pretty well known. It goes like this: the sun began as a protostar in its "solar nebula" over 4.5 billion years ago. Over the course of several million years, the planets emerged ...
Astronomy
Jul 11, 2022
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About 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere underwent what is called the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Prior to the GOE, early Earth had far less molecular oxygen than we have today. After the GOE, molecular oxygen began ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2022
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Shortly after it formed, the moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense minerals floated to form the ...
Space Exploration
Aug 4, 2021
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Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to fill nearly five million Olympic-size swimming pools each year, research shows.
Environment
Aug 2, 2021
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In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are almost unheard of above the Arctic Circle, but scientists led by ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2021
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