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In the future, people in the Himalayas will have to contend with flooding, while those in the Andes will have longer dry spells and less water. These are the conclusions drawn by ETH and Northumbria University researchers, who have used measurement data and climate models to closely examine water balance in both of these mountain …

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Antarctica was once covered with tropical forests. Now researchers have fully charted the slow transition from tropical paradise to icy wasteland, thanks to a single marine sediment core. The core shows for the first time that temperate forests were a key transitional stage before falling temperatures turned the continent into a white wasteland. Read more.