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November 26, 2024 Weekly News

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Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.       Human Fingerprints on an Ancient Landscape The Cretaceous sandstone of Libya’s Messak Settafet plateau shows signs of a modern oil field and Stone Age quarries and hunting sites.       New View of the “City Under the Ice” A novel radar image reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.       Windy City of Lights Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.       Global Freshwater Abruptly Declines The amount of freshwater stored on land and underground has plummeted in the past decade, which might indicate that Earth’s continents have entered a persistently drier phase.       A Hazy, Foggy Day in Italy’s Po Valley Research suggests that airborne particles called aerosols contribute to longer-lasting outbreaks of fog.       Extratropical Cyclone Whips Over the Pacific Northwest Damaging winds from the strong storm knocked out power for thousands of people in Washington state.       Latest Images From the Past 7 Days view archive of natural events             Extratropical Cyclone Whips Over the Pacific Northwest Damaging winds from the strong storm knocked out power for thousands of people in Washington state. (Nov 20, 2024)       Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024 Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why. (Nov 18, 2024)

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