Is Pluto EVAPORATING? New 'ice retreat' image shows nowhere is safe from climate change and other top stories.

• Is Pluto EVAPORATING? New 'ice retreat' image shows nowhere is safe from climate change

  

  But the disintegrating ice in question is actually frozen methane which is being lost from Pluto’s surface at a rapid rate.NASA revealed the methane is now subliming into gas, exposing eroded cliff faces and plains.The US space agency statement also suggested Pluto's water ice bedrock was being exposed to the surface in these affected areas.Sublimation - the transition straight from a solid state into gas without a liquid water stage - happens to methane when atmospheric pressure lowers, meaning..

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• Boat mooring chains scour Rottnest (Australia) seagrass releasing CO2

  

  This photography shows the loss of seagrass in bays around Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth. Credit: ECU. Seagrass covering 48,000sqm has been scoured from the sands of Rottnest Island (Western Australia') by almost 900 mooring chains used by ...

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• Mathematicians stunned by 'unrandomness' discovery of prime numbers

  

  Mathematicians stunned by 'unrandomness' discovery of prime numbers KATE AUBUSSON Last updated 07:17, March 16 2016 Mathematicians are baffled by the discovery prime numbers aren't as random as they seem. The infinite world of prime numbers just got a little more finite, after a pair of mathematicians discovered the prime number sequence isn't as random as once thought. Primes hate..

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• Climate science still to answer the frost 'enigma'

  

  Climate science still to answer the frost 'enigma' Updated March 16, 2016 11:08:44 Agricultural consultant Dr Steve Wilson is cautioning against cuts to the CSIRO as big questions about climate change and agriculture remain unanswered. Dr Wilson is a former lecturer in Agricultural Science at the University of Tasmania and now consults in the field of micro-climate and frost management.He made the comments in the light of a Senate inquiry examining plans by the CSIRO to..

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