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Climate change will harm our health. Here's what could protect us.Science Spotlight The impacts of climate change on health are becoming clearer. What can we do to respond?
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'At some point we're going to have to react': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brinkLive Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering tipping point.
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How climate change could fuel impulsive behaviorVideo In this exclusive video, we explore how climate change and rising temperatures can affect mental health.
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Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in PatagoniaEarth from space A 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual point where two contrastingly colored Patagonian lakes meet. The duo was originally a single body of water but was split by a narrow land bridge.
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South American 'Pompeii': Volcanic eruption 22 million years ago preserved a snapshot of the Andes formingAn enormous volcanic eruption buried a snapshot of the baby Andes mountains, revealing a slow-and-steady growth rate.
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We now have an incredibly detailed map to help predict which areas of LA are the most at risk from 'The Big One'A new 3D map of the Los Angeles basin reveals deep sediments that could intensify shaking in an earthquake.
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'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapseResearchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning.
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Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spreadScience Spotlight Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections.
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Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study findsScientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm spots left a kink in the jet stream that intensifed weather in the western U.S.
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