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Global heat stuck on high; scientists say August was Earth’s hottest month they’ve measured
WASHINGTON • Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through…
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NASA, NOAA leaders stress need to study sun, improve space weather forecasts
While the nation celebrates the safe return of the astronauts who flew by the moon, there’s another celestial body scientists yearn to know more about for future missions: the sun. “As we travel farther and farther in space, as we get to the moon, as we go to Mars, our ability to understand how the…