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Satellite image of Corbassière glacier in Switzerland captured on August 23, 2001, by Landsat 5.Satellite image of Corbassière glacier in Switzerland captured on August 20, 2023, by Landsat 8.The surface melting of a high-elevation glacier in the Alps has rendered it unusable for scientific research.Glaciers are natural archives of past climate. In their frozen layers lies evidence of Earth’s changing temperature and atmospheric composition. But as the climate warms, some of the longest records of our changing planet are…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team led by Pro. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou University and the Xi'an Institute for Innovative Earth Environment Research, has revealed a new pattern of the Holocene temperature change in arid Central Asia. The results were published in Quaternary…

The man who pleaded guilty to the murder of Jacqueline Avant in her Beverly Hills home last year shot her in the back and later laughed and bragged about the killing, according to court records reviewed by The Times.Aariel Maynor allegedly bragged to a friend in a phone call from jail that he would serve only 20 to 25 years because Los Angeles County prosecutors did not file special circumstances murder that could have meant life without parole or the death penalty, a sentencing document filed by prosecutors shows.Dist.…

There’s a 90 percent chance that global average surface temperatures will reach a record high for the year leading up to June 2024, according to new research published today in the journal Scientific Reports. Some places will be more sweltering than others, particularly in parts of Asia. The heat has cascading effects, like raising the risk of drought and wildfire. A weather pattern known as El Niño is to blame. El Niño is part of a natural, cyclical phenomenon, but climate change heightens the stakes by raising baseline…

Samsung may be on track to achieve its ambitious sales target for the Galaxy S24 series. The new flagships broke pre-order records in several markets and continue to sell like hotcakes globally. Sales in the US are also at a record high in eight years, signaling a turn of fortune for the Korean firm. Galaxy S24 is selling like hotcakes in the US and everywhere else According to the Korean media, Samsung aims to sell more than 35 million units of the Galaxy S24 trio this year. The figure marks a double-digit growth over…

Ubisoft's pirate game Skull and Bones is not putting up the strongest player numbers, but the publisher is touting the game's "record player engagement" as the title's first season launches.According to Ubisoft, Skull and Bones players are spending, on average, more than four hours in the game every day. This is the second-highest daily playtime average for a Ubisoft game since the company was founded 37 years ago. Ubisoft did not say what the No. 1 title is. You need a…

While Ford’s E-Transit work vans are busy racking up sales and electrifying the world’s commercial van fleets, Ford’s 1400 hp electric SuperVan is racking up records and electrifying race tracks around the world! We covered a previous iteration of Ford’s electric SuperVan technology demonstrator last summer, when “version 4.2” was set to take on the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC). That version of the van packed 1400 hp and produced a whopping 4,400 lbs. of aerodynamic downforce at 150 mph.…

The HONOR Magic6 Pro launched today for global markets. It was announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, and we also published our review today. Having said that, the HONOR Magic6 Pro managed to break 3 records over at DxOMark, which is what we’re here to talk about. HONOR’s new flagship is not a top-placed smartphone in the Display, Battery, and Selfie categories. It also managed to take a very high second place in the Audio department. It received a ‘Gold’ rating from DxOMark in all those categories.…

A local shareholder will examine the internal records of a single-branch bank in Lakewood to determine whether its chairman squandered the bank’s profits on a fleet of aircraft that he used to travel to Denver Nuggets games, where he became known as the “Red Pant Man.” In an oral ruling Feb. 6 that took more than an hour to read, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Bonnie David decided that Rob Salazar can inspect certain records of Solera Bank. “I am convinced that the (bank) board’s decision not to pay a dividend in 2020,…

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