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Can we refreeze the Arctic?

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By Belle de Jong Verified
| The European Correspondent
Arctic ice reserves are the “refrigerator of the earth”, as Christian Haas puts it. He's a professor in geophysics at the University of Bremen and the head of the sea ice physics section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, and has studied sea ice for some 30 years. “When I started with my research, the ice was thicker than the size of a person.” Today, he said, that is no longer the case. A wider frozen surface is key to alleviating the effects of global heating.
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Chat, are we cooked?

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By Toyah Höher, Belle de Jong Verified
| The European Correspondent
You may have heard about AI data centres guzzling insane amounts of energy, and that using ChatGPT to write an email is equivalent to emptying out a bottle of water. But is that true? And how worried should we be about GenAI’s environmental impact? It’s difficult to measure the exact scale of the problem, as AI companies have been shy to share information on their resource use. But let’s look at what we do know.
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Is the super El Niño coming for you?

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By Belle de Jong Verified
| The European Correspondent
Centuries ago, Peruvian fishermen noticed that every few years, the Pacific Ocean became unusually warm around Christmas time, and fish disappeared. Because of the timing, they called it El Niño – Spanish for “the boy”, referring to baby Jesus. Usually, the eastern Pacific stays cool thanks to trade winds – permanent easterly winds blowing near the equator. Cold water flows northward along South America's coast through the Humboldt Current.
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