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		<title>Some South American rodent-borne viruses may spread as climate warms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Garcia de Jesús]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is currently a threat.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cows’ methane burps may be fueled by a newfound organelle in gut microbes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tina Hesman Saey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In cows’ guts, ciliates contain a tiny organelle called a hydrogenobody that may drive production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How climate change may increase antibiotic resistance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Garcia de Jesús]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rising heat and drought may spur bacteria to exchange antibiotic resistance genes, with potential risks to human health.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Increasing heat can boost malnutrition among children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meghie Rodrigues]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a study of 6.5 million children in Brazil, higher temperatures were associated with worse nutrition outcomes, especially in vulnerable groups.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An endangered mouse may need a helping hand to adapt to climate change</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Garcia de Jesús]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pacific pocket mice are geographically isolated, but the species may retain the genetic diversity needed to adapt to climate change.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For gray whales, San Francisco Bay is becoming a deadly pit stop</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gennaro Tomma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate change could be forcing gray whales to seek food in San Francisco Bay, where vessel strikes may be driving rising deaths. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Emperor penguins are marching toward extinction. Antarctica fur seals too</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Gramling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging populations. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How warming is shifting microbial worlds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Garcia de Jesús]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Gramling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<em>The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth:</em> Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>City skylines influence cloud formation above them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larissa G. Capella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density help explain why.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extreme heat is cutting the time people can safely be active outdoors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nikk Ogasa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heat and humidity now severely limit light physical activity for millions of people around the world, with older adults facing the greatest burden. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why we fail to notice climate change</title>
		<link>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-binary-frozen-weather</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sujata Gupta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lakes are growing in Alaska. That&#8217;s not entirely a bad thing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas Fox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into thriving salmon habitat.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hundreds of studies have missed how much the oceans are rising</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nikk Ogasa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A widely used method to calculate sea level rise may have missed up to a century of change, so the risks could hit home for millions sooner than thought.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Take it from the Olympics, slushy winter sports may be the new normal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Vizcarra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ice arenas and artificial snow now dominate the winter Olympics. Athletes there — and everywhere — may need to adjust how they train and perform. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Garcia de Jesús]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some butterflies to stay put.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today</title>
		<link>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/irreversible-climate-antarctica</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Gramling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Marshall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Some dung beetles dig deep to keep their eggs cool</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Pennisi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A temperate tunneling species of dung beetle seems capable of adapting to climate change, but their tropical cousins may be less resilient.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Polar bears in the Barents Sea are staying fat despite rapid sea ice loss</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Dzombak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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