Articles filed under Science
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Looking for signs of global warming? It's all around youJun 19, 2018 7:00 am - GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) - David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist. More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, bir...
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Allergies, glaciers and pikas: Climate change in actionJun 19, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - You don't just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change's effects have been measured: -Gl...
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James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warmingJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK - James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't. NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global w...
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AP Was There: The age of climate change beginsJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - On June 23, 1988, a top NASA scientist told Congress and the world that global warming had arrived. NASA scientist James Hansen predicted that 1988 wou...
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Trump announces plans for Pentagon to create 'Space Force'Jun 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Monday he is directing the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" as an independent military service branch aimed at e...
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NASA's record-breaking spacewoman retires as astronautJun 15, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's record-breaking astronaut, Peggy Whitson, retired Friday less than a year after returning from her last and longest spaceflight. She's...
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Spacewalking astronauts set up TV cameras for arriving shipsJun 14, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts set up TV cameras Thursday for new crew capsules set to arrive in coming months. The International Space Station's co...
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Many animals are shifting from day to night to avoid peopleJun 14, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lions and tigers and bears are increasingly becoming night owls because of us, a new study says. Scientists have long known that human activity disrupts ...
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NASA rover knocked out as gigantic dust storm envelops MarsJun 13, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blott...
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Antarctica's ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than beforeJun 13, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice ...