Alaska’s Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow Knob into an island. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.) NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska’s coast that emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small mountain that was once …
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As Apple continues towards their goal of a true all-screen iPhone, it looks like the iPhone 18 will get them one step closer. There have long been conflicting rumors on when the Dynamic Island might finally see a design update. Most recently, it was rumored that the iPhone 17 may have a smaller Dynamic Island, but that of course didn’t …
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The Falkland Islands are known today for cool winds, broad grasslands, and very few trees. That modern picture is accurate, but it is not the whole story. Pollen found beneath the capital shows these islands once supported a cool-temperate forest – wet, shaded, and biologically rich. The clue came from a dark, woody layer uncovered during construction in Stanley. It …
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“Over One Million Giant Eggs”: Scientists Discover Massive Skate Ray Nursery on Active Underwater Volcano Off Vancouver Island Energy Reporters Source link
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The birth of an island is normally a process that requires the movement of vast tectonic plates over centuries, if not millennia. But in Alaska, a new island has popped up in just four decades. The two-square-mile (five sq km) landmass, known as Prow Knob, was once entirely surrounded by the deep ice of the Alsek Glacier. But NASA has revealed …
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With the Long Island Rail Road’s first strike in over 30 years looming, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority released its plan for commuters if train service is indeed forced to stop. The MTA said Thursday nearly 300,000 regular LIRR riders should work from home, if possible, but limited bus service would make connections with the New York City subway in the …
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A ‘new’ island has appeared in the middle of a lake in southeastern Alaska after the landmass lost contact with a melting glacier, NASA satellite images reveal. The landmass, named Prow Knob, is a small mountain that was formerly surrounded by the Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park. However, Alsek Glacier has been retreating for decades, slowly separating itself …
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Global warming is a tricksy beast. In some places, it’s transforming once-lush environments into barren deserts; in others, it’s doing essentially the opposite – albeit through an irony-fueled, monkey’s paw kind of interpretation of “re-green the Earth’s deserts”. Now, a new set of photos from NASA has laid bare a striking example of the latter effect – and it’s right …
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Summer might be coming to an end, but the games in the villa are just getting started with Love Island Games Season 2. Ariana Madix returns to Fiji to host an all-new season of the competition dating series dropping on Tuesday, September 16, with a two-hour premiere at 9 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. PT on Peacock. New episodes of the …
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