Jupiter’s moon Io: Global magma ocean, or hot metal core?

2 new research papers debate whether Jupiter’s moon Io has a magma ocean or a hot metal core. The results were presented at the AGU22 meeting this month.

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Textbooks cut climate-change content — and more of this week’s best science graphics – Nature.com

Climate-change content shrinks in textbooks University biology textbooks published in the United States in the 2010s contained less climate-change content than those published in the 2000s, despite increasing attention to the climate crisis. Researchers also found that passages on climate…

Media Reporting On India’s Weather Repeats Doomsday Talking Points

At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, India’s capital of Delhi experienced one of the coldest winter nights this year on December 27. The region is home to 32 million people, with millions of them having no access to heating in their homes….

Climate change is coming for the Jersey Shore, retiring coastal expert warns – The Philadelphia Inquirer

On a dock overlooking a coil of Nacote Creek in Atlantic County last week, Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University’s Coastal Research Center, gave an impromptu master class on barrier islands, ancient geology, crab traps, coastal law, the Delaware Bayshore,…

Venice could be saved by global warming, according to new research – Metro UK

Could global warming actually save Venice? (Credit: Unsplash) Venice could be saved by global warming, according to new research. The most romantic city in Europe is facing the same fate as legendary Atlantis – by disappearing beneath the waves. But…

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ – InsideClimate News

Photography by Larry C. Price This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. TORICHA, Kenya—If there’s a ring around the sun, it will rain. If the gude bird sings in descending notes, the skies will open. If vultures…

Ghostly light in galaxy clusters revealed by Webb

The Webb has now been used to study the ghostly light in galaxy clusters – the light of stars wandering in intergalactic space.

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Changing Arctic: New insight on freeze-melt cycle of sea ice

Accelerated warming is thinning sea ice, affecting exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere

Global Warming Reduces the Surface Area Covered by Cumulus Clouds, Increasing Their Warming – Nature World News

Cumulus clouds in trade-wind areas cover nearly 20% of our planet, cooling it. Until recently, it was assumed that global warming would reduce the amount of surface area covered by clouds, thereby amplifying the warming. However, a team of researchers…

Stars and planets grow rapidly together

An international team of researchers has released a new study of “polluted” white dwarf stars showing that stars and planets likely form simultaneously.

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