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  1. Animals

    Climate stress may undermine male spiders’ romantic gift giving

    Even spider love lives show an effect of climate uncertainty: Stressed males may offer a bit of silk-wrapped junk rather than a tasty insect treat.

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  2. Ecosystems

    New videos reveal the hidden lives of Andean bears

    The footage give clues to the range of plants the bears eat and how they mate, information important for conservation.

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  3. Climate

    An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast

    The Conger Ice Shelf disintegrated in 2022. Satellite data leading up to the collapse hint at worrying changes in a supposedly stable ice sheet.

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  4. Climate

    From electric cars to wildfires, how Trump may affect climate actions

    Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to address climate change and environmental issues may fare.

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  5. Climate

    Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere

    Hundreds of defunct satellites plunge toward Earth every year. Scientists are studying how the chemical stew left in their wake impacts the atmosphere.

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  6. Climate

    Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 29 kph on average

    Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming seas. One even jumped two categories of intensity.

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  7. Oceans

    The world’s largest coral was discovered in the South Pacific

    The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer

    The new finding comes from an analysis of pesticide use and prostate cancer incidence in over 3,100 U.S. counties.

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  9. Environment

    Fire-prone neighborhoods on the fringes of nature are rapidly expanding

    The transition zone where unoccupied wildlands meet developed areas increased globally by about 35 percent from 2000 to 2020.

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