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Hurricane Erin continued to churn in the North Atlantic well southeast of New England on Friday. Rip currents will continue to plague parts of the U.S. East Coast, Bermuda, and Atlantic Canada into the weekend, as Erin’s massive circulation –  including tropical-storm-force winds spanning an area 600-700 miles wide – pushes immense volumes of high surf. Erin had already embarked on …

Hurricane Erin made its closest approach to the U.S. at 2 a.m. EDT Thursday, when its center passed about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. At the time, tropical storm-force winds of the massive hurricane extended out about 230 miles (370 km) to the northwest of the storm. The U.S. Coast Guard Station at …

Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by meters and lead to “catastrophic consequences for generations,” scientists warned Wednesday. More broadly, a state-of-knowledge review by a score of top experts revealed accelerating shifts across the region that are often both a cause and effect of global warming, according to a study published …

Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say  Reuters Antarctica’s changing threat landscape underscores the need for coordinated action  EurekAlert! Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment  Nature Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton from space  European Space Agency Antarctic climate shifts threaten ‘catastrophic’ impacts globally  WV News Source link

NASA’s acting Administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will step back from climate science to focus on space exploration — highlighting a growing shift in the agency’s overall mission. The remarks echo President Trump’s NASA budget proposal, which seeks steep cuts to NASA’s Earth science initiatives, potentially putting several key missions at risk and raising concerns among researchers about gaps …

Daniel Rothman works on the top floor of the building that houses the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, a big concrete domino that overlooks the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rothman is a mathematician interested in the behaviour of complex systems, and in the Earth he has found a worthy subject. Specifically, Rothman …

Houston, we have a problem. Junk Science In a major blow to climate change science, NASA is officially not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration. During a Fox Business news segment, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy (who also happens to be the Secretary of Transportation) dropped the bombshell during a live interview …

In his 100 days as pope, Leo links climate, environment to broader global issues  National Catholic Reporter In Pope Leo XIV’s first 100 days, a calm papacy that avoids controversy comes into focus  PBS Here are 50 notable remarks by Pope Leo XIV during his first 100 days  catholicnewsagency.com Does Pope Leo still play Wordle with his brother? His family reveals answer  NBC 5 …

This could re-energise the drug pipeline just in time Could AI save us from the antibiotic apocalypse? That’s the hope from new research in which scientists designed novel drugs atom-by-atom to beat two notorious superbugs, including MRSA. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, causing the deaths of around five million people a year. Even routine operations could become life-threatening events …

That was the moment he knew it was true love. Donald Trump turned to gaze at Vladimir Putin as the Russian president publicly endorsed his view that, had Trump been president instead of Joe Biden, the war in Ukraine would never have happened. “Today President Trump was saying that if he was president back then, there would be no war, …