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Posted on 16 February 2017 by John Abraham As humans burn fossil fuels and release greenhouse gases, those gases enter the atmosphere where they cause...

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False-color images of rising tide at Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, made by JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument on Oct. 17, 2016....

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