Science & Environment
![FILE - Areas of Greenland are seen from the air near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, May 20, 2021. Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December 2022 warming. Scientists say some of it is random weather from storms and some of it is from low sea ice. The low sea ice is due to climate change. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of ArcticMuch of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming. In Utqiagvik, Alaska’s northernmost community formerly known as Barrow, it hit 40 degrees (4.4 degrees Celsius) Monday morning. That’s...By SETH BORENSTEIN
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![A man looks on as Mount Semeru releases volcanic materials during an eruption on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022 in Lumajang, East java, Indonesia. Indonesia’s highest volcano on the country’s most densely populated island of Java erupted Sunday.]()
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![In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, astronaut Chen Dong waves as he sits outside the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 manned space mission after it lands successfully at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country's ambitious space program, state TV reported. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)]()
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![A Dixie Valley toad is seen around the hot spring-fed wetland in the Dixie Valley in Fallon, Nev., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. In a highly unusual move in a legal battle over a Nevada geothermal power plant and an endangered toad, the project’s developer is now asking a judge to allow it to scale back by 80% the original plan U.S. land managers approved last November. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via AP)]()
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![FILE - City workers remove garbage floating on the Negro River, which has a rising water level due to rain, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 6, 2022. More than 2,000 experts plan to wrap up early negotiations Friday, Dec. 2, on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address the crisis.]()
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![A former coal-fired power plant in Logan Township, N.J., collapses after explosives were detonated to implode it on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. The plant was razed to make way for a battery facility to store energy from clean sources such as wind and solar.]()
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![People watch and record images of lava from the Mauna Loa volcano Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii.]()
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![Britain's Kate, Princess of Wales poses for a photo with the crowd after a tour of Roca Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Chelsea, Mass. Britain's Prince William greets people on the left. The Prince and Princess of Wales are making their first overseas trip since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September.]()
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![A man talks on a phone in his car alongside Saddle Road as the Mauna Loa volcano erupts Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. Hundreds of people in their cars lined Saddle Road, which connects the east and west sides of the island, as lava flowed down the side of Mauna Loa and could be seen fountaining into the air on Wednesday.]()
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![President Joe Biden stands with French President Emmanuel Macron after a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.]()
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![FILE - Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk said during a presentation Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2022, that his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon. Musk’s Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)]()
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![French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a news conference with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.]()
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![Ximean Fuentes, Chile's vice-minister for foreign affairs, second left, Chilean lawyer Carolina Valdivia Torres, right, and Bolivian Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, second right talk prior to the reading of the verdict at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, where the UN's top court rules on a dispute about a river that crosses Chile's and Bolivia's border, in a case seen as important jurisprudence at a time when fresh water is becoming an increasingly coveted world resource.]()
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![FILE - Professor Ern?‘ Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube, is photographed in New York on Sept. 18, 2018. Rubik has seen his color-matching puzzle go from a classroom teaching tool in Cold War-era Hungary to a worldwide phenomenon with over 450 million cubes sold and a mini-empire of related toys.]()
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![Search teams work on a landslide in Casamicciola, on the Italian resort island of Ischia, in southern Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, which killed eight people and left four missing where a big chunk of the Mount Epomeo detached destroying houses and pushing vehicles down into the sea.]()
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![FILE - The sun sets behind a windmill farm in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India, Sept 14, 2022. India officially takes up its role as chair of the Group of 20 leading economies for the coming year Thursday, Dec. 1 and it's putting climate at the top of the group's priorities.]()
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![Britain's Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, arrive at Boston Logan International Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in Boston. The Prince and Princess of Wales are making their first overseas trip since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)]()
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![Ingrid Yang, left, and Kelly Bruno, both of San Diego, take a photo in front of lava erupting from Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii.]()
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![FILE - Dead Rio Grande silvery minnows lie in the dry Rio Grande riverbed on July 26, 2022, in Albuquerque, N.M. Environmentalists on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, accused the U.S. government of not doing enough to ensure the survival of the Rio Grande silvery minnow as drought tightens its grip on one of the longest rivers in the West.]()
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![FILE - This 2019 photo provided by NOAA shows the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, high atop Hawaii's largest mountain in order to sample well-mixed background air free of local pollution. Mauna Loa’s volcano eruption has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but officials said that there are hundreds of other carbon dioxide monitoring sites across the globe. (Susan Cobb/NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory via AP, File)]()
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![Lauren Gilbert, a senior manager at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), participate in a global online conference to launch genealogy testing for Holocaust survivors, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in New York. CJH is offering Ancestry/DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children to help increase the possibly of finding family connections torn apart in World War II.]()
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![People watch the glow from lava erupting from Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022 in Hilo, Hawaii.]()
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![Spectators watch the lava flow down the mountain from the Mauna Loa eruption, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii.]()
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![In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an image captured off a screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China shows the Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-14 crew taking a group picture with their thumbs up after a historic gathering in space on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)]()
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![French President Emmanuel Macron with his wife Brigitte Macron arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for an official state visit.]()
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![FILE - A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. NASA on Tuesday, Nov. 29, announced that its GeoCarb mission, which was supposed to be a low-cost satellite to monitor carbon dioxide, methane and how plant life changes over North and South America, was being killed because of cost overruns.]()
