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Presidential Debate’s Climate Change Question Contrasts Biden Record with Trump Falsehoods
Presidential Debate Contrasts Biden’s Energy Policy with Trump’s Climate Falsehoods During the first presidential debate, Biden alluded to the Inflation Reduction Act while Trump went on an incoherent rant about “H2O” By Joseph Winters & Grist President Joe Biden and former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections at…
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Antarctic Ice Hides 40-Million-Year-Old River System
Ancient River System Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles By Kristel Tjandra & LiveScience The remnants of a giant river system were found beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (shown here). Geologists digging into the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica have discovered the…
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Green Energy Is Getting a Boost from Iceland’s Melting Ice
Iceland’s Ice Is Melting So Fast That It’s Boosting Hydropower Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long? By Francisco “A.J.” Camacho & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — Few countries can compete with Iceland when it comes to renewable energy. The island nation gets nearly 100 percent of its electric power from green…
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Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues
Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and public health advocates argue in a new petition By Thomas Frank & E&E News Workers harvest cantaloupe on a farm during a drought in Firebaugh, California, U.S.,…
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The Physics of Breakdancing, a New Olympic Sport
The Physics of Breakdancing, a New Olympic Sport Breakdancing will hit the global stage at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and this physicist is excited to break down the science By Amy Pope & The Conversation US Lee of Netherlands competes in the men’s Breaking B-Boys final during the Olympic Qualifier Series for breaking, BMX freestyle, skateboarding, and…
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Clean Energy Spending Will Surpass $2 Trillion This Year
Clean Energy Spending Will Surpass $2 Trillion This Year Investments in carbon-free energy will be twice as large as fossil fuel spending in 2024, the International Energy Agency predicts By Benjamin Storrow & E&E News Technicians from CP Solar work on the maintenance of solar panels at a partially solar-powered factory in the industrial area of Nairobi, on October 9,…
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Elephants Call Their Relatives by Name across the Savanna
Elephants Call Each Other by Name Across the Savanna Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles By Marta Zaraska Humans have a long history of inventing names for elephants. There is Disney’s Dumbo, of course, and Jumbo, a 19th-century circus attraction, and Ruby, a famed painting elephant from the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona. But new research suggests wild African…
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Why More Space Launches Could Be a Good Thing for the Climate
The weather was mild on the evening of May 25 at the southern tip of the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand. The wind was gentle, the sky was clear, and even conditions in the Earth’s upper atmosphere were calm. It was, in every way, a promising night for a rocket launch. And at 7:41 P.M. local time that promise was…
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Exotic Quantum ‘Bose-Einstein Condensate’ State Finally Achieved with Molecules
Exotic Quantum State Achieved after Decades-Long Quest Molecular Bose-Einstein condensates could help to provide the answers to fundamental questions or form the basis of new quantum computers By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine Velocity-distribution data for a gas of rubidium atoms before, during and after the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. The peak forms as all the atoms occupy the…
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Fossils from an Ice Age ‘Tree Spa’ Discovered
Ice Age ‘Spa’ Kept Trees Alive in Freezing Conditions Fossils from an ice age “spa” reveal a cluster of hot springs kept trees alive in the frozen Alps By Tom Metcalfe An ice age “spa” like the one shown in this artist’s conception may have existed long ago in what is now the Czech Republic. Illustration by Jiří Svoboda A…
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