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As climate change intensifies, the tide of a 100-year storm to hit Bangladesh every ten years, scientists report
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tropical cyclones are hurricanes that can brew tropical oceans and run on land, allowing coastal areas to flood. The most extreme cyclones can produce catastrophic storm tides. This is the seabed that is elevated by the tide, swells on land, causing catastrophic flood events in coastal areas. A new study by MIT scientists finds that as…
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Space & Cosmos
Webb Telescope captures photos of asteroids that do not hit the Earth in 2032
The image provided by the European Space Agency on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, photographed by NASA’s Webb Telescope shows the asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: European Space Agency via AP Webb Space Telescope took a photo of the asteroid that caused agitation when it broke through Earth’s hit list earlier this year. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered later last year, was…
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Environment
Things you need to know about earthquakes like those that hit Myanmar
Volunteers are searching for survivors near a damaged building in Nepitau, Myanmar on Friday, March 28, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo Earlier on Friday, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that began near Mandalay in Myanmar shook the earth to about 800 miles (1,300 km) of Bangkok. Two hard hit cities in Myanmar are images of Naypyidaw, an image of the…
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Space & Cosmos
Do you remember an asteroid that doesn’t hit the Earth? We can send a mission to explore it
The artist’s impression of the asteroid. Credit: ESA-Science Office Last year, astronomers detected asteroids near Earth (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbit the Sun every four years and regularly cross the Earth’s orbit. The nature of the orbit makes it a potentially dangerous object (PHO). This means that one day it could pose a collision risk to the Earth. Recently, refined…
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Environment
A twice as severe winter is about to hit much of the U.S. with snow, ice and biting cold.
People walk nearly half a mile from a grocery store to their homes as steam from underground vents rises behind them in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File Meteorologists predict that strong snow and ice storms and subsequent bitter cold will soon hit two-thirds of the eastern United States as frigid air…
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Other Sciences
Saturday’s quote: Cold dark matter takes a hit. A new paradigm in biology. those fracking earthquakes
This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the Cosmic Evolution and Early Emission Science (CEERS) study. It’s full of galaxies. Some galaxies grew so large and so quickly that simulations seem unable to explain them. But new research has found that some of these early…
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Science
Pollution levels in Pakistan’s biggest cities hit record high, officials say
Air pollution in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, soared on Saturday, hitting an all-time high, officials said. Air pollution in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, soared on Saturday, hitting an all-time high for the smog-choked metropolis, officials said. For days, the city of 14 million people has been shrouded in smog, a mixture of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel fuel,…
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Environment
How many typhoons will hit Taiwan this year?
Statistical seasonal forecast of super typhoon Game and tropical cyclone landfall on Taiwan Island. Credit: Chen Ziqing Typhoons, with their intense winds, rain, storm surges, and secondary disasters, have long been a key focus for local governments, meteorological bureaus, and research institutes, and all parties need to develop more efficient ways to ensure public safety. We have made every effort…
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Environment
Study confirms record Sahara dust event hit Spain from 2020 to 2022
Cabo de Gata, Almeria during the dust event on March 15, 2022 | Eva de Mas (EEZA-CSIC). Credit: Eva De Mas (EEZA-CSIC) A study by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), an agency belonging to Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, shows that during 2020 the most intense Saharan dust event ever recorded in Spain and Portugal’s air quality…
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Space & Cosmos
New research shows that most of the space rocks that hit Earth come from a single source
The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It reminds us that the Earth is part of a much larger and incredibly dynamic system. Each year, approximately 17,000 of these fireballs not only enter the Earth’s atmosphere, but also survive the perilous journey to the surface. This gives scientists a…
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