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EnvironmentAugust Tied for the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, Copernicus Says
The Copernicus Climate Change Service said August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023, at a global average surface air temperature of 16.96 °C. The service, run by the…
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In Climate Models, Undoing Emissions Does Not Undo What They Did to the Land
Suppose the world one day takes more carbon dioxide out of the air than it puts in. Emissions fall to zero, then go past it. The air thins, the planet stops warming and slowly starts to cool. What do…
By Andreja Jezernik
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How Shark Skin Saves Airlines Millions of Dollars and Reduces CO2 Emissions
For billions of years, the natural world has acted as a silent engineer. It methodically discarded ineffective solutions and refined the good ones. As a result, these mechanisms became so effective…
By Diana Brinker
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Corals in the Gulf Kept a Record of American Fertilizer Use
A coral is not a tree, but it keeps the same kind of books. The slow-growing stony corals of the northern Gulf of Mexico add a layer of limestone every year, one on top of the last, for centuries.…
By Anna Kotlyar
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A Black Hole Grew a Jet. Now Astronomers Can Measure Its Magnetic Field.
In May 2023, astronomers pointed the Very Large Array at a galaxy whose black hole had just begun doing something it had never been seen to do. Every radio look at 1ES 1927+654 before that year had…
By Diana Brinker
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