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This satellite image provided by NASA, Aqua MODIS 12 on March 2022 shows the main piece of C-37 close to Bowman Island. Scientists are concerned because an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area that had long been thought to be stable. The collapse last week was the first time scientists have ever seen an ice shelf collapse in this cold area of Antarctica. (NASA via AP)

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Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Fri,03/25/22-12:00PM , 90 Reads
An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.
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Christine Wiecek, left, and her husband Robert Patchus, second left, talk to neighbors amongst debris of their damaged homes after a tornado struck the area in Arabi, La., Tuesday, March 22, 2022. A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans and its suburbs Tuesday night, ripping down power lines and scattering debris in a part of the city that had been heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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EXPLAINER: Why South gets more killer tornadoes at night
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,03/23/22-2:32PM , 136 Reads
Forget “The Wizard of Oz.” Tornadoes are causing far more deaths and destruction east and south of Kansas these days. And they’re often doing it in the dark of night.
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A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord near Nuuk in southwestern Greenland, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Hot poles: Antarctica, Arctic 70 and 50 degrees above normal
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Fri,03/18/22-8:26PM , 102 Reads
Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average.
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A pier and dock sits above Lake Tahoe's receding shoreline Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 at Tahoe City, Calif. There’s no relief in sight for the West’s record-shattering megadrought, which will likely only deepen this spring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its seasonal outlook Thursday, March 17, 2022. But central and eastern states should be mostly spared from significant flooding. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)

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Hot spring forecast: Drought deepens in West, flooding ebbs
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,03/17/22-5:00PM , 80 Reads
There’s no relief in sight for the West’s record-shattering megadrought, which will likely only deepen this spring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its seasonal outlook Thursday. But central and eastern states should be mostly spared from significant flooding.
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