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The next time you bite into a slice of melon or take a sip of coffee, think about this: Worldwide, about 1000 plants used for food, beverages, spices, fibers and medicines need to be pollinated by animals in order to grow the foods and products we depend on. About 75 percent of all plants, including [...]
In the six years since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its last assessment report, better models and satellite observations have let scientists refine their estimates of glacial and ice sheet contributions to sea level rise. These advances show that the Greenland ice sheet is losing ice to the ocean at an increasing pace: [...]