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Scientists Suggest Dehydrating a Layer of Earth’s Atmosphere to Fight Global Warming
A new climate intervention strategy aims to decrease the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by injecting it with ice-forming nuclei. The idea is that, by reducing the water content, more heat in the form of infrared radiation would leak out into space. Scientists described the strategy a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.…
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Growing Up With Cats Linked to Higher Schizophrenia Risk
Growing up with cats could have a strange effect on your mind, new research suggests. The study, a large review of existing literature, found that cat ownership at a young age was associated with a noticeably higher risk of developing schizophrenia and related disorders—a risk possibly fueled by increased exposure to the cat-hosted parasite Toxoplasma…
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We Pump So Much Groundwater, We’ve Shifted The World’s Tilt and Contributed to Sea Level Rise
We’ve been sucking the Earth dry, and it’s starting to change how our planet works. A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, explains that we’ve extracted so much damn water out of the ground, it has changed the planet’s tilt and has contributed to sea level rise.
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The Supreme Court Just Gutted the Clean Water Act
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in a decision that significantly narrows the Clean Water Act’s protections. The majority, 5-4 opinion was authored by Justice Samuel Alito and supported by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — all conservative judges, two of whom were…