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Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh

Ice covers about 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) of Greenland, forming the largest ice sheet on Earth outside of Antarctica.

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Arctic-Bound Birds Can Still Keep Up With Climate Change – For Now

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, birds species that travel there to breed there are under pressure to migrate faster. 

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U-M Scientists Discover Unique Brain Cell That May Hold Key to Alzheimer’s Disorientation

Losing your sense of direction is one of the earliest and most distressing signs of advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

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Warming Climate Drives Surge in Dengue Fever Cases

Warmer weather across the globe is reshaping the landscape of human health.

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Microscopes Can Now Watch Materials Go Quantum With Liquid Helium

Scientists can now reliably chill specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours while taking images resolved to the level of individual atoms with an electron microscope.

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Santa Monica’s Waves Will Run Pink During UCLA Water Quality Test

Visitors to Santa Monica Beach may notice the ocean waves turning pink September 15, 22–24 and 30 near the breakwater and pier because of a temporary, non-toxic dye used to study water quality.

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Rising Heat Waves Tied to Fossil Fuel and Cement Production

According to ETH Zurich climate researchers, greenhouse gas emissions from major fossil fuel and cement producers are significant contributors to the occurrence and intensity of heat waves. 

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Lightning to Spark More Wildfires in Western Us in Coming Decades

New study finds increasing hot weather and lightning could spark more fires.

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New Species Survival Commission Fills Critical Gap in Conservation

Group to examine potential extinction of microbes essential to planetary and human health.

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Volcanic Emissions of Reactive Sulfur Gases May Have Shaped Early Mars Climate, Making It More Hospitable To Life

While the early Mars climate remains an open question, a new study suggests its atmosphere may have been hospitable to life due to volcanic activity which emitted sulfur gases that contributed to a greenhouse warming effect.

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