Antarctica's Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated

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October 18, 2022

Climate Change Antarctica's Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide By Douglas Fox

Climate Change California's 2020 Wildfires Negated Years of Emission Cuts Record-breaking wildfires released twice the amount of emissions that California cut between 2003 and 2019, though unlike fossil-fuel emissions, they can eventually be reabsorbed by vegetation By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Pollution How Safe are U.S. Rivers 50 Years After the Clean Water Act? Millions of miles of U.S. rivers have dramatically improved in the half-century after the Clean Water Act, but climate change and other types of pollution still pose threats By Cari Shane

Animals Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They're Stuck That Way Certain compounds in our skin determine how much we attract mosquitoes, new research suggests—and those compounds don't change much over time By Daniel Leonard

Health Care Hearing Aids Are Now Available Over the Counter Once available only with a prescription, hearing aids can now be purchased at Walmart and other stores for $199 and up By Phil Galewitz,Kaiser Health News

Renewable Energy An Alaska Air Base Wants to Build a Micro Nuclear Plant for Backup Power A proposed 1.5-megawatt nuclear facility will supplement power from a decades-old coal plant that powers one of the nation's most strategic air bases By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Climate Change Mountain Goats Battle Bighorn Sheep over Climate-Limited Resources Climate change may be leading to strange hostilities between different animal species over limited resources By Rachel Nuwer

Public Health The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy COVID and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy, with Indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline By Tanya Lewis

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