Maddie Stone
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Listen To The Creepy Noises Picked Up At A Space Weather Station In Antartica
Scientists often detect weird sounds in Antarctica, from seismic waves rippling through ice shelves. But a space weather station run by the British Antarctic Survey may hold the most diverse selection of acoustic oddities collected on the frozen continent to date.
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Planet-Hacking Became More Urgent And Terrifying Than Ever This Year
Somewhere between a viral fake story about Harvard researchers suggesting we ‘dim the sun’, and a major, government-funded report laying out how we might re-engineer the oceans to save coral reefs, it hit me last month: This whole geoengineering idea has become suddenly, frighteningly mainstream.
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Major Scientific Society’s Decision To Honour Anti-Environment Senator Sparks Outcry
American’s largest annual Earth science conference doesn’t kick off until next week, but things are already getting heated. Members of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) are up in arms over the organisation’s decision to give a prestigious award to Senator Cory Gardner, who in 2015 voted against a measure declaring human activity “significantly contributes to…
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America’s Northernmost City Is Having Another Dramatic Climate Change Year
The northernmost city in the U.S. continues to be ground zero for the impacts of climate change. As sunlight fades from the Arctic, sea ice began to form this week around Utqiaġvik, an Iñupiat whaling community located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. And that’s…not right.