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Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)

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Study: Don't blame climate change for South American drought
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,02/16/23-3:26AM , 410 Reads
Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry
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- $A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn't as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier. (Schmidt/Lawrence/Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP)$
A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn't as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier. (Schmidt/Lawrence/Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP)

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Skinny robot documents forces eroding Doomsday Glacier
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,02/15/23-10:16AM , 318 Reads
Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential
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Chunks of ice break off the Perito Moreno Glacier, in Lake Argentina, at Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate, in Argentina's Patagonia region, March 10, 2016. As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe live under the threat of a sudden and deadly outburst flood, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Francisco Munoz, File)

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Study: 15 million people live under threat of glacial floods
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,02/07/23-10:03AM , 329 Reads
As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe live under the threat of a sudden and deadly outburst flood, a new study finds.
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Siegfried Hecker, from left, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, remove a cloth covering the Doomsday Clock before a virtual news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it has moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Ukraine war moves 'Doomsday Clock' to 90 seconds to midnight
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,01/24/23-12:11PM , 338 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight.
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