Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands

Glaciers like Antarctica's Byrd Glacier are showing cracks and movement. United States Geological Survey , CC BY-SA The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests that its long-term stability isContinue Reading

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Nev: TAA and Robertson are Prem’s best ever Gary Neville rates Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson as the Prem’s best ever full-backs. Neville, who played as a right-back at Manchester United, was very impressed with Alexander-Arnold and Robertson during the Reds’ 2-2 draw at Tottenham on Sunday. The footballer-turned-pundit can’t remember twoContinue Reading

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Omicron, the latest variant of concern, was discovered in samples collected on November 8 in South Africa. It rapidly replaced delta as the dominant variant in the country and now accounts for nearly 100% of cases in South Africa. Since then, this latest “variant of concern” has since spread throughoutContinue Reading

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Lady Ardad has a gilt-edged opportunity of making it fifth time lucky in a fourteen-runner Nursery over six furlongs of Southwell tapeta tonight when a complete eight-race racecard has been programmed with handicaps; from my perspective it’s a travesty and disappointing but two-year-olds are my speciality and if Les Eyre’sContinue Reading

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The American actor Richard Gere is one among several witnesses scheduled to testify at the high-profile trial of the Italian politician Matteo Salvini, Italy’s former interior minister. Salvini is facing charges of kidnapping after allegedly blocking the humanitarian ship Open Arms carrying 147 migrants from docking at the Sicilian portContinue Reading

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Dinosaur embryo discovery: rare fossil suggests dinosaurs had similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds

Julius Csotonyi, Author provided Dinosaur embryos are key to our understanding of how dinosaurs developed. But they’re also very rare. While remains of dinosaur embryos have been discovered occasionally over recent decades, most of them have been incomplete, with the bones dislocated. So the discovery of an almost intact dinosaurContinue Reading

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