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A retired National Severe Storms Laboratory employee in a Monday interview described the flooding in central Texas as a β€œworst-case scenario.” β€œThis really was a worst-case scenario where you had 6 to 9 inches of rain fall in just a few hours, right on top of that south fork of the river,” Alan Gera…
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A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size of Greenland. This change has reversed a decades-long trend and is letting hidden heat rise to the s…
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Macquarie University researchers reveal that chlorothalonil, still commonly sprayed on American and Australian produce, cripples insect fertility by more than a third at residue levels typically found on food. The unexpectedly sharp drop in fruit-fly egg production suggests cascading damage to polli…
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Research finds that the higher the levels of air pollution in a region, the more cancer-promoting mutations are present Air pollution has been linked to a swathe of lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, in a study of people diagnosed with the disease despite never having smoked tobacco.The findings fro…