Green sea turtles are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warming temperatures, a new study shows.
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Some sea turtles are laying eggs earlier in response to climate change
A 1-degree-Celsius change in water temperature prompts sea turtles in Northern Cyprus to lay eggs nearly a week earlier on average.
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Researchers used texts like these to discern what it was like to live through the Little Ice Age in Transylvania, a region in Romania.
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If global temperatures average 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, many parts of the world may experience extreme heat events hazardous to human health.
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West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier (seen here in the background behind an iceberg) hemorrhages 80 cubic kilometers of ice per year, through melting and the shedding of icebergs. It is a prime target of glacial engineering proposals.
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Rats love warmer weather. As temperatures in cities increase, people make more rat complaints, a new study shows.
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As the Santa Ana winds raced through the Los Angeles area in January, they fanned the flames of ongoing blazes. In this photo of the Hughes Fire taken on January 22, winds can be seen breathing life into flames on a hillside near Castaic Lake.
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In the headwall scarp of a landslide on Bylot Island in northeastern Canada, researchers uncovered the remnant ice of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old.
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Flames devoured pines and other vegetation in the Arapaho National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park during the East Troublesome Fire in 2020. The blaze, the subject of a new podcast, is the second largest wildfire in Colorado history.
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Almost everywhere around the globe, it was hotter than the average from 1991 to 2020. In some places, such as the Canadian Arctic, temperatures were as much as 5 degrees Celsius (the darkest red) higher. Blue colors mark the few regions where temperatures were cooler than the average.
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Simothenurus occidentalis (illustrated) was one of dozens of kangaroo species that went extinct by 40,000 years ago.
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