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The scariest part of a landmark new report on the science of climate change may be what scientists don't know.On Monday, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N.'s climatescience body, released the final volume in a series of reports outlining experts' latest understanding of the science of climate change.

Cróga, the baby loggerhead turtle who washed up on a beach in northwest Ireland after a months-long, 4,000-mile journey that nearly killed her.(Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium)A family strolling on a beach in Ireland earlier this month spotted a seafarer that had washed up on the rocks.Her body was battered.

Environment The growing warmth and saltiness of the Gulf of Maine off New England is causing a dramatic decrease in the production of phytoplankton - microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain.PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost - the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain.

A severe storm system that spawned tornadoes tore through an area near Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on Saturday, damaging homes and flipping cars, according to officials and witness accounts.James Ippolito, the deputy fire chief in Palm Beach Gardens, which is about a dozen miles north of West Palm Beach, said the area had been hit by a storm that left a man trapped between a boat and a concrete piling.

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The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

First-time home buyers around the country are struggling to amass a down payment in this high-inflation economy.But there may be hope.For those who work remotely or are open to relocating, a recent study by Rocket Homes can help find a new locale.The study compared 383 major metropolitan areas to find the best ones for home buyers with household incomes of $65,000 just below the median national household income of $70,784, the most recently reported figure from the U.S. Census Bureau.

First-time home buyers around the country are struggling to amass a down payment in this high-inflation economy.But there may be hope.For those who work remotely or are open to relocating, a recent study by Rocket Homes can help find a new locale.The study compared 383 major metropolitan areas to find the best ones for home buyers with household incomes of $65,000 just below the median national household income of $70,784, the most recently reported figure from the U.S. Census Bureau.

A version of this story appeared in CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.After more than 50 years of quiet, the moon is about to become a destination for space travelers again.The public will soon learn the names of the four astronauts who will venture on a journey around the moon next year aboard the Artemis II rocket.

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer and NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a rollout solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station's (ISS) Port-4 truss segment as the orbiting lab flew 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Namibia.(Frank Rubio/NASA)Astronauts for decades have faced challenges building things in space.

The NASA Perseverance rover recently analyzed a trove of Martian rocks that seem oddly familiar - like where volcanic flows meet the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, or where they meet the Atlantic Ocean in Iceland.This area, called the Séítah formation, is the scene of the newest investigation into the water that likely washed through this region billions of years ago.

From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.He won the White House despite lacking any government or military experience, a first in the nation's history.As a candidate and then as president, Trump drew supporters ever closer with his brash, impulsive and decidedly unpresidential behavior not in spite of it.

The U.S. military said Friday that recovery teams have concluded the search for debris of the suspected Chinese spy balloon that American fighter jets destroyed earlier this month as it flew off the South Carolina coast.Recovery operations concluded Thursday after the U.S. Navy successfully located and retrieved the wreckage, according to a U.S. Northern Command statement.

The U.S. military embarked Monday on an underwater mission to collect remnants of the downed Chinese spy balloon, which Biden Administration officials hope will provide clues on how the Chinese government was carrying out a years-long surveillance operation.The high-altitude spy balloons briefly flew over the continental U.S. at least three times over the past six years, but went undetected until the most recent one entered American airspace last week.

Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the UK Government and Founder of Centre for Climate Repair, told MyLondon in a recent interview that a mega-tsunami, caused by a potential or hypothetical landslide in the Canary Islands, could hit the coastal towns in the UK "any time" in the next 10,000 years.

Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Founder of Centre for Climate Repair, Sir David, told MyLondon in a recent interview that a mega-tsunami, caused by a landslide in the Canary Islands, could hit the coastal towns in the UK "any time" in the next 10,000 years.While the chances of the giant wave hitting in the near future are "slim" he said: It could happen in 10,000 years time, but it could also happen tomorrow.

Narratives of the great migration and the Harlem renaissance have dominated conversations around African American art in the 20th century, but a new exhibition, Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers, which opens at the Royal Academy in London this week, invites us to consider the cultural contribution of artists from the American south.

We haven't prepared for this...In case Londoners needed another reason to feel existential dread and crippling environmental anxiety, a top scientist has warned that a 'mega tsunami' could hit London 'at any time'.Doomsday preppers, this is your time to shine.Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser to the UK government and founder of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, told My London that a huge tidal wave could sweep up the River Thames at any point, causing massive devastation to the city.

ALBANY, N.Y.Even then, the gender imbalance was glaring.The so-called Million Dollar Staircase, spanning 444 steps and four floors of the New York State Capitol, memorialized the faces of dozens of distinguished figures in delicate carvings, but not one was a woman.Scrutiny prompted a state official to hastily authorize the addition of several women to the staircase's lower level.

The downing of a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday afternoon ended America's fixation on the balloon's days-long journey across United States airspace and provided Saturday Night Live with irresistibly topical subject matter for its opening sketch just a few hours later.This weekend's S.N.L. broadcast, hosted by Pedro Pascal and featuring the musical guest Coldplay, started with a sendup of an MSNBC broadcast anchored by Chloe Fineman, playing the TV journalist Katy Tur.

The Terran 1 rocket, made largely of 3D-printed metal parts, launched successfully but failed to reach orbit on Wednesday.Trevor Mahlmann/Relativity Space A rocket made almost entirely of printed metal parts made its debut launch Wednesday night, but failed after three minutes of flight far short of reaching orbit.

Culture In this week's StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, Nazim Abdul Karriem reflects on his time as a young Black soldier in World War II.SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps's Military Voices Initiative that records and shares the stories of service members and their families.A note now - this piece contains offensive, racist language.

Two friends who had never rowed before are preparing to cross the Atlantic later this year in an endurance race.Sabrina Faith and Leanne Maiden met online in lockdown when looking for a new challenge and are now training to row 3,000 miles from La Gomera in the Canaries to Antigua in the Caribbean in December.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is now considering a run for president, was asked on Fox on Wednesday about the Biden administration's criticism of rail deregulation efforts by the Trump administration.Fox host Martha MacCallum told Pence that, in the wake of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in early February, They're blaming the Trump administration.

When US President Joe Biden learned a suspected Chinese spy balloon was drifting through the stratosphere 60,000 feet above Montana, his first inclination was to take it down.By then, however, it was both too early and too late.After flying over swaths of sparsely populated land, it was now projected to keep drifting over American cities and towns.

Boris Johnson may not have fully disappeared from politics, but in a recent photo tweeted by the Business Secretary the former prime minister appeared to have performed a vanishing act.Grant Shapps, tweeting in advance of the rocket launch from Spaceport Cornwall, spoke of his delight at backing the first-ever launch of a satellite from European soil.

October in England figures to be a heavyweight battle of British titans.This fall, on Oct. 1, 2023, some of the most powerful athletes in England will gather in Doncaster to determine who stands tallest and strongest above their countrymen.They'll use the 2023 England's Strongest Man (ESM) competition to parse this competitive evaluation out amongst themselves.

Senior US generals issued stark warnings to lawmakers about what they described as an aggressive expansion of Chinese influence in South America and the Caribbean encroaching on American interests in the region.The [People's Republic of China] has the capability and intent to eschew international norms, advance its brand of authoritarianism, and amass power and influence at the expense of these democracies, Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of US Southern Command, said on Wednesday.

We liked Tenerife in the Canary Islands so much on our trip last January, we decided to visit another island in the Canaries', Lanzarote.After the frigid weather during our trip to Norway in December and the cold temperatures in Paris in January, we were ready to thaw out somewhere warm.Riding to our hotel, the landscape of high mountains contrasted with palm trees and low white buildings on the flat parts, reminded me of Palm Springs.

If your secret wish is to get a reward, not just family compliments, for your talents in the kitchen, then Georgiana Viou might serve as inspiration.The self-taught chef from the west African country of Benin, who came to Paris dreaming of becoming an interpreter, was awarded a star on Monday by the Michelin Guide, the bible of gastronomy, for her cuisine at Rouge, a restaurant in the southwestern French city of Nimes.

Washington (CNN)A senior American military officer notified lawmakers in January that China has more land-based fixed and mobile intercontinental ballistic missile launchers than the US, according to a letter sent to Congress.The letter from Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of US Strategic Command which oversees the US nuclear arsenal says that as of October 2022 China's inventory of land-based fixed and mobile ICBM launchers "exceeds the number of ICBM launchers in the United States."

President Joe Biden said in a new interview that the recently recovered Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental US did not damage bilateral relations between the two countries.The idea shooting down a balloon that's gathering information over America and that makes relations worse?Biden told PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff in a wide-ranging interview a day after his second State of the Union address.

Listing all the orchestras the American conductor Karina Canellakis has worked with is a mission impossible.We will not even try.By the way: She is scheduled to hit the stage of the Berliner Philharmonie in February.Berlin, December 13th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - When the late Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti completed his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in 1992, Karina Canellakis already played the violin, but she was only 11 years old.

Beachgoers have been warned to stay vigilant after sightings of venomous jellyfish-like creatures across Dorset's beaches last week.The Portuguese man o'war has been found washed up on multiple beaches, including Chesil Beach on January 19.The Portuguese man o'war is typically found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Braves Franchise History
1966 - The Braves trade Eddie Mathews to the Astros.Mathews is the only player to play for the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta.MLB History
1918 - Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager.Gleason will win the American League pennant in his first season, but it will be tarnished when a reported eight players conspire to throw the 1919 World Series.

Retired Air Force Col.Joseph W. Kittinger Jr., at his induction into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, on July 19, 1997.(Michael Heinz/AP)A giant of American aerospace history, Air Force Col.Joseph Kittinger Jr., who for more than half a century held a world record for a parachute jump from the edge of space, died in Florida on Friday at age 94.

Retired Air Force Col.Joseph W. Kittinger Jr., at his induction into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, on July 19, 1997.(Michael Heinz/AP)A giant of American aerospace history, Air Force Col.Joseph Kittinger Jr., who for more than half a century held a world record for a parachute jump from the edge of space, died in Florida on Friday at age 94.

La Belle Vie is our regular look at the real culture of France  from language to cuisine, manners to films.This newsletter will be published weekly and you can receive it directly to your inbox, by going to newsletter preferences or adding your email to the sign-up box in this article.French baguettes have finally gotten the recognition they deserve.

La Belle Vie is our regular look at the real culture of France  from language to cuisine, manners to films.This newsletter will be published weekly and you can receive it directly to your inbox, by going to newsletter preferences or adding your email to the sign-up box in this article.French baguettes have finally gotten the recognition they deserve.

England and Senegal will meet for the first time at a World Cup as they face off in the round of 16 on Sunday (1900 GMT).The West African team overcame an initial loss to the Netherlands with two victories against hosts Qatar and Ecuador to progress out of Group A.
Senegal hope to emulate their golden year of 2002, when they reached both their first Africa Cup of Nations final and World Cup quarter-final.

Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.Day-by-day TV listings  - Full coverage details  

England booked a meeting with African champions Senegal in the last 16 of the World Cup with Tuesday's 3-0 win over Wales.