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ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, left, and other oil company heads testify about energy pricing and profits at a Congressional hearing in November 2005. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Longtime Exxon CEO Lee Raymond’s legacy of climate denial and misinformation lives on – a psychologist offers ways to counter it

At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
A whitebark pine seedling grows in soil and deteriorating wood blackened by fire in Glacier National Park, Montana, in 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life

The dead remains of foundation species can boost or deter how well future generations are able to grow and thrive.
Hurricane Sandy hit New York and its suburbs in 2012 as shown by imagery from Nasa’s GOES-13. Robert Simmon with data courtesy of NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science team

Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?

Extreme storm surges can be predicted much faster with high accuracy thanks to a new AI model that helps researchers and practitioners improve coastal flood risk assessment and adaptation planning.
Scientists could ski in the mountains to have a break from research but that’s no longer possible during the Antarctic summers for safety reasons because the ice is melting so quickly. Katherine Hendry

Extreme weather is making Antarctic research harder, but new technology is providing some answers – new study

There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research if getting more difficult.
One of NOAA’s WP-3D Orion hurricane hunters, dubbed Miss Piggy, flies over Tropical Storm Idalia on Aug. 28, 2023. Nick Underwood/NOAA

Hurricane forecasts have improved dramatically, saving lives, but federal cuts threaten to stretch NOAA resources to breaking point

A hurricane scientist explains the technology forecasters rely on to keep people safe and help communities all along the Atlantic coast know when to evacuate.

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