guardian.co.uk: A 2°C rise in global temperatures will not necessarily result in the calamity predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), China’s most senior climatologist has told the Guardian.Despite growing evidence that storms in China are getting fiercer, droughts longer, and typhoons more deadly, Xiao Ziniu, the director general of the Beijing Climate Center, said it was too early to determine the level of risk posed by global warming.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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