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Florida Icebergs
Scour marks discovered in the seafloor off the southeast coast of the United States were discovered by two American researchers to be from a huge discharge of icebergs during the last glacial period, around 31,000 years ago.
A team of scientists from the University of Bern and NCCR PlanetS have developed remote sensing equipment that may one day enable us to distinguish extraterrestrial planets with life from those without living organisms.
Death Valley's record high temperature of 134°F on July 10, 1913 is now recognized as the official world record, as the previous record from Libya in 1922 has been deemed invalid by a team from the World Meteorological Organization.
A 2020 study from researchers at NOAA shows that despite above-average Atlantic hurricane seasons the past few years, later this century the average number of tropical cyclones, both in the Atlantic and worldwide, is expected to decrease.