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NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth
Due to budget constraints, NASA is rethinking the architecture of the Mars Sample Return program, developed in partnership with the European Space Agency.
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Dinosaurs displayed a fast growth rate from the very beginning
One of the traits that helped make the dinosaurs such an evolutionary success story - thriving for 165 million years - was their fast growth rate, from massive meat-eaters like Tyrannosaurus to immense plant-eaters like Argentinosaurus. A new study indicates it was present in the earliest dinosaurs, as revealed by microscopic features in bone fossils from Argentina that showed that they exhibited growth rates on par with those of today's mammals and birds. The researchers examined patterns pre
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How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans
The same planet-warming pollution that’s driving the climate crisis is likely to blame for “killer events” on the colder end of the temperature spectrum.
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Coral reefs suffer fourth global bleaching event, NOAA says
Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world's colorful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists said on Monday amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades. At least 54 countries and territories have experienced mass bleaching among their reefs since February 2023 as climate change warms the ocean's surface waters, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch, the world's to
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Should we reconsider having children due to fears about the climate crisis?
Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent, has a new book, “Life As We Know It (Can Be),” written as a letter to his children, about growing up and thriving in an age of climate fear and hope.
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Ocean heat is driving a global coral bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record
At least 54 countries are experiencing mass coral bleaching as the climate crisis drives ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels
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Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass bleaching in warming oceans
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared Monday, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change. Coral reef bleaching across at least 53 countries, territories or local economies has been confirmed from February 2023 to now, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and International Coral Reef Initiative said. Coral reefs are important ecosystems that sustain underwater life, p
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