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Big banks promised to protect the planet. Now they're doing an about-face.
Big banks and asset managers are a powerful force in fighting the climate crisis, but many of them …
Catherine Boudreau
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The jaw-dropping 'Alien: Romulus' ending sets it apart from other blockbusters. Here's what happens.
Fede Álvarez cranks up the body horror in the jaw-dropping "Alien: Romulus" ending. Here's a breakd…
Eammon Jacobs
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Cloud seeding probably didn't cause Dubai's floods. The UAE has been trying to control its weather for years, and the US does it too.
Dubai's torrential floods are linked to humans changing the weather, just not on purpose. Cloud see…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Raindrops on other planets could be key in search for life beyond the solar system
Finding another planet that can support human life is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But …
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Global warming is changing the very way water is flowing through our atmosphere
As a result, some regions may experience more frequent and severe droughts, while others might see …
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Rain could soon overtake snow in parts of the Arctic, top scientists warn
The Arctic fringes may become rainfall-dominant environments in a few decades. In places like south…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will spend its first year looking for primordial galaxies, gold-forging explosions, and habitable planets
NASA is about to launch the world's most powerful space telescope. Webb's first year of science cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An astronomer at Japan's space agency is making simple animations that reveal the surprising physics of the solar system
As a scientist at both NASA and JAXA, James O'Donoghue has studied the planets. In his free time, h…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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An astronomer's colorful animation shows how Saturn's disappearing rings act like a 'mini solar system'
If you unfurled Saturn's rings into lines, all the planets in the solar system could line up comfor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The worst storms on Earth are nothing compared to the weather on other planets
And the weather on Jupiter isn't any better. Of course, there's the Great Red Spot. A hurricane-lik…
Gina Echevarria,Rebecca Wilkin
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The summit of Greenland got rain, rather than snow, for the first time on record
Melting on Greenland, which has the largest ice mass in the northern hemisphere, contributes to ris…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Stunning video captures a rare Jupiter triple-eclipse: 3 large moons casting their shadows over the planet
Moons pass between Jupiter and Earth all the time, but it's rare that three of them do it at once. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The planet lost more Arctic sea ice than the area of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh combined in 2021
Every year, sea ice regrows during the winter months to recuperate what was lost during the summ…
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NASA's Mars Helicopter recharges its batteries for the very first time en route to the Red Planet
If successful in its mission on Mars, Ingenuity will be the first chopper to fly on a planet oth…
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Somewhere on Earth, it could rain rocket parts this weekend as a runaway Chinese spacecraft breaks up in the atmosphere
China's space-station rocket will most likely land in the ocean, but its path around Earth also tak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists spotted a 'space hurricane' swirling above the magnetic north pole. It was raining charged solar particles.
Satellites observed a swirling storm above the magnetic north pole in 2014. It was the first space …
Aylin Woodward
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Hurricane Sally left nearly 600,000 Americans without power and killed one. The storm dumped '4 months of rain in 4 hours.'
Sally dropped 30 inches of rain in parts of Florida on Wednesday. Forecasters warn of possible torn…
Aylin Woodward
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A rogue country could take planet-hacking into its own hands to alter the climate - and some experts worry it could lead to war
To limit the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - the Pari…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth for the first time. That planet is now our best bet for finding alien life.
"Habitability as we understand it is a very Earth-centric concept. So we know one world that is hab…