Earth in Action

  1. Climate

    Humans’ greenhouse gas emissions throw next ice age off schedule

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  2. Earth

    Antarctica’s concealed mountains tell of wonders revealed by pure science

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  3. Science & Society

    Alexandra Witze, Earth in action

    Loss of eyes in the sky hurts science on the ground.

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  4. Climate’s effect on extreme weather is no game of chance

    Climate change is supposed to be about climate, you’d think — not weather. After all, climate is what you expect in the long term, like how bad the average winter will be; weather is what you get day to day, like whether there will be frost on Halloween night. Predicting even next week’s weather often seems like […]

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  5. Loss of eyes in the sky hurts science on the ground

    In a clean room at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California sits the next great hope of the United States’ Earth-monitoring program. About the size of a minibus, it is covered in gold foil, riddled with electrical wires, and very clean. This $1.5-billion satellite is state-of-the-art, carrying five advanced instruments to measure everything from […]

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  6. Science & Society

    A prescription for complexity: public health and climate change

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  7. Earth

    Surviving tornadoes mostly depends on a lot of luck and the right attitude

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