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Paris climate summit

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gallery-earth/en/ NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Earth

It's time to accept that we are in the Anthropocene once and for all

Humans are drastically changing the planet and the Anthropocene is a useful tool to help us deal with that – so let's stop quibbling over definitions

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Environment

There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice

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Environment

Engineers are diverting Mississippi river to restore Louisiana’s coast

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An animation of the primitive Earth in the process of formation, more than four billion years ago. We view the newborn world from its troubled surface a sea of lava dotted with volcanoes spewing more lava, ash and smoke into the atmosphere. Meteorites fall frequently, illuminating the black, lifeless, surface rocks. And in the sky, the Moon -- much closer to us then than it is now -- endures a similar bombardment.

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The Story of Earth's Climate review: 25 discoveries tell tangled tale

Culture

Adult female Calanus with food in the gut

Environment

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

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Environment

El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the world this year

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Life

Strange animals called pyrosomes are thriving as the Pacific heats up

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Melting of ice in Greenland

Environment

Melting of Greenland ice could cause European heat extremes this year

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Life

Thousands of humpback whales starved to death after marine heatwave

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Environment

Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands by sinking the ground

Projections of flood risk due to sea level rise on the Samoan Islands underestimate the rate at which the islands are sinking after two earthquakes hit in 2009

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Environment

Playing underwater sounds could help coral reefs fight global warming

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Making wastewater less acidic could help the ocean capture more carbon

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Technology

Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto dismissed early climate concerns

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Environment

Climate benefits of planting forests might be overestimated

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