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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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Earth
In Patagonia, more snow could prevent glaciers from melting, but only if greenhouse gas emissions are quickly curbed.
Glacier front in southern Patagonia. Credit: Henning Åkesson In an era of declining glaciers, southern Patagonia has managed to retain an astonishing amount of ice. But a new study published in Scientific Reports by INSTAAR postdoctoral researcher Matthias Troch suggests that this protective effect may soon reach its limit. Before making their predictions, Troch and his collaborators looked back. They…
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Industrial snow: clouds freeze in factories, causing localized snowfall
Satellite images show plumes of snow rising on the ground downwind of Russia’s Fokino cement factory. Credit: V. Toll et al. Anthropogenic aerosols, small solid and liquid air pollution particles, have masked some of the global warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Climate researchers have known for decades that anthropogenic aerosols disrupt liquid clouds by allowing more cloud droplets to…
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Other Sciences
Why is the representation of dwarfism changes in Disney’s live-action remake of ‘Snow White’ so important?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, currently scheduled for March 2025, has been controversial, with the movie’s trailer receiving over 1 million thumbs down on YouTube. There is. In particular, many fans were outraged by the fact that computer-generated imagery (CGI) was used for the characters in The Seven Dwarfs (now renamed…
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