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The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the ...

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Ancient horsetail plants produce water with unusual oxygen isotopes, offering scientists a new tool to reconstruct Earth’s climate history and understand humidity patterns from millions of years ago.

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