Environment

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  1. Climate

    Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

    Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

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  2. Earth

    Another danger looms after the LA fires: Devastating debris flows

    As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

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  3. Climate

    Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier remnant

    Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

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  4. Environment

    A podcast challenges us to reassess our relationship with wildfires

    United by Fire lays out key insights from the two largest blazes in Colorado history, the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires of 2020.

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  5. Animals

    More new geckos have been found hiding in Southeast Asia’s limestone towers 

    Nearly 200 new gecko species found in living in karst landscapes reveal the rugged regions as dynamic areas of speciation.

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  6. Animals

    ‘Forever chemicals’ are causing health problems in some wildlife

    Deformed scales in hatchlings and biomarkers indicative of disease progression are two health impacts on turtles at PFAS-polluted sites in Australia.

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  7. Artificial Intelligence

    Generative AI is an energy hog. Is the tech worth the environmental cost?

    Generative AI and the hype around it has rung in excitement and alarm bells this year. Here’s how to consider climate, energy and AI's intersection.

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  8. Plants

    Meet a scientist tracking cactus poaching in the Atacama Desert

    Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

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  9. Climate

    An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast

    The Conger Ice Shelf disintegrated in 2022. Satellite data leading up to the collapse hint at worrying changes in a supposedly stable ice sheet.

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