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Study Finds Data Centers Warm Nearby Neighborhoods by Up to 4°F

Field measurements link waste heat from air-cooled condenser arrays to local temperature rises that could boost air-conditioning demand.

Heal the Bay Names Playa Blanca California's Most Polluted Beach

Most of the World’s Rivers Are Losing Oxygen, Global Study Finds

Antarctic Ice Points to Supernova Dust Riding the Local Interstellar Cloud

Neanderthals Planned Seasonal Shellfish Harvests 115,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

Coal Pollution Is Dimming Solar Power, Global Study Finds

Megaconstellation Launches Leave High-Altitude Soot With Geoengineering-Like Effects

Antarctic Ice Links Supernova Dust to the Solar System’s Passage Through a Nearby Cloud

Tonga Eruption’s Plume Rapidly Destroyed Methane, Satellite Study Finds

Euphrates River Near Record Lows as Iraq Warns of Possible 2040 Dry-Up

New Theory Quantifies Why CO2 Cools the Stratosphere and Warms the Surface

Airborne Microplastics Warm the Planet at About One-Sixth of Soot’s Effect

New Organelle in Cow Gut Microbes Linked to Methane Burps

New Study Finds Tectonic Uplift Shaped the Twelve Apostles and Pins Their Limestone at 8.6–14 Million Years

New Study Projects Atlantic Overturning Current to Halve by 2100

Study Finds Planets Need 20%–50% of Earth’s Ocean to Stay Habitable

Study Projects Much Sharper Weakening of Atlantic Gulf Stream System by 2100

Five-Year Dig to Probe ‘Remarkable’ Wogan Cavern Under Pembroke Castle

Antarctic Surveys Find New Weddell Sea Islet and Under-Ice Erosion Hotspots

First Confirmed Egg From a Mammal Ancestor Found in 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil