Arctic peatlands are expanding with rising temperatures, storing more carbon at least for now. But future warming could reverse this benefit, releasing massive emissions.

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Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

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In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What ...

During the red giant phase, both the Sun and Jupiter will shine brighter and become hotter. However, its moon Europa is ...