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A bee searches for pollen on a flower during a sunny spring day in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, April 8, 2022. A study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 says habitat loss from big agriculture and climate change are combining to threaten the world's insects. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Climate change, big agriculture combine to threaten insects
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,04/20/22-10:00AM , 362 Reads
Climate change and habitat loss from big agriculture are combining to swat down global insect populations, with each problem making the other worse, a new study finds.
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Soncia King holds onto her husband, Patrick King, in Lake Charles, La., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, as they walk through the flooded street to their home, after Hurricane Delta moved through the previous day. According to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,04/12/22-10:00AM , 496 Reads
Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said.
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A truck drops off a load of garbage at the South Kent Landfill in Byron Township, Mich., on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a study calculating that levels of the potent heat-trapping gas methane rose at a record pace in 2021. Methane comes from energy use, agriculture and landfills and is also natural. (Mike Clark/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)

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NOAA: Potent heat-trapping methane increases at record pace
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,04/07/22-4:02PM , 417 Reads
Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.
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This undated photo provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in April 2022 shows the facility's Collider Detector outside Batavia, Ill. In results released on Thursday, April 7, 2022, scientists at the lab calculated that the W boson, a fundamental particle of physics, weighs a bit more than their theoretical rulebook for the universe tells them it should. (Fermilab via AP)

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Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,04/07/22-1:01PM , 326 Reads
The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
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