physical geography
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More Human Bones Emerge From Lake Mead as Drought Continues
The ongoing drought in the U.S. West is turning Nevada’s Lake Mead into something out of a true crime series.
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See Carpets of Flowers and Dunes of Clothing in World’s Driest Desert
Chile’s Atacama Desert is a place of surreal contradictions: Delicate flowers, blooming only once or twice a decade, suddenly cover a bone-dry landscape. Huge dunes of discarded clothing appear alongside undulating sand.
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See, This Is What Happens When You Let the Oceans Heat Up
The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most extreme on record. Between May and November, there were 30 named storms (the most ever recorded), and 14 of those reached hurricane level (the second-most ever). Cumulatively, all these storms caused hundreds of deaths and more than an estimated $US40 ($56) billion of damage. Now, we…
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Antarctica’s Conger Ice Shelf Suffers ‘Complete Collapse’
An ice shelf the size of Hong Kong has collapsed in eastern Antarctica, spawning a large iceberg and concerns that unusually warm temperatures in the region might be responsible.