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Recent research indicates that while sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is currently speeding up due to warming temperatures and thinning ice, climate models predict a slowdown during the summer months in the coming decades. This dynamic has significant implications for marine transportation safety, the wellbeing of Indigenous communities, ecosystems, and the global climate system. The study highlights a discrepancy between observational data and model projections, underlining the complexity of predicting sea ice movement and…

A group of 41 state attorneys general are demanding that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, provide support for users because there has been a “dramatic increase” in accounts on its platforms being locked and taken over. The letter, addressed to Meta’s chief legal officer, Jennifer Newstead, requested immediate action to address the increase in users who are experiencing “takeovers and lockouts” on Facebook and Instagram. The group said its offices have experienced a spike in complaints…

Credit: The Cryosphere (2024). DOI: 10.5194/tc-18-995-2024 Will ice floating in the Arctic Ocean move faster or slower over the coming decades? The answer to this question will tell us whether marine transportation can be expected to get more or less hazardous. It might also have important implications for the rate of ice cover loss, which is hugely consequential for Northern Indigenous communities, ecosystems, and the global…

The solar cycle has been reasonably well understood since 1843 when Samuel Schwabe spent 17 years observing the variation of sunspots. Since then, we have regularly observed the ebb and flow of the sunspots cycle every 11 years.More recently ESA's Solar Orbiter has taken regular images of the Sun to track the progress as we head towards the peak of the current solar cycle.Two recently released images from February 2021 and October 2023 show how things are really picking up as we head toward solar maximum.Startling…

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The three multimillion-dollar estates perched high on the edge of a Dana Point bluff boast some of the most magnificent views in Orange County: unobstructed panoramas of the crystal blue Pacific, boats moored in the harbor and, on a clear day, Santa Catalina. But back-to-back rainstorms have prompted fresh concerns about the homes on the aptly named Scenic Drive. The same steep cliff that falls away under the properties — giving them the illusion of being on the edge of the Earth — has withered under the atmospheric…

Lava flows across snow-covered ground in southwestern Iceland.Photo: Marco Di Marco (AP)Southwestern Iceland has been a world transformed over the last few months, as initial tremors gave way to a full-throated volcanic eruption. The fishing village of Grindavík was evacuated in November, along with popular tourist destinations like the country’s Blue Lagoon, as residents held their breath for a potential eruption.And lo, a little later than expected, in December 2023, a large crack in the ground made by the initial…

A developer on the frontline of the infamous and game-changing firing of Call Of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella from Infinity Ward in 2009 has revealed what happened next. After creating the original Call Of Duty in 2003 and taking it to new heights with Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, both West and Zampella were abruptly fired from Infinity Ward by parent company Activision in 2009. The pair were reportedly let go for “insubordination” and went on to set up Respawn Entertainment with the backing of…

Screenshot: MicrosoftAlthough they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBradley Cooper is remembering his “dramatic” first encounter with his Maestro co-star Carey Mulligan. Before the two starred opposite each other in the Oscar-nominated biopic about the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, they met backstage at one of Mulligan’s stage plays. “Carey was in a one-woman show, and I went backstage to meet her and realised something was not right…