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Media Highlights

• In 2006, Scientists Discovered Giant Antarctic Lakes 4 Kilometres Below Surface that Never Froze Despite Brutal Cold and Could Harbor Ancient Life
  August 3, 2026
  Robin Bell of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Michael Studinger made the discovery by combining data from ice-penetrating radar, gravity surveys, satellite imagery, laser altimetry and records from a Soviet Antarctic Expedition that unknowingly crossed […]
• Super El Nino Map Shows One State Bracing for Even More Snow This Winter
  August 3, 2026
  Researchers at the Columbia Climate School say the early warning signs are already in place, and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gives the event an 81 percent chance of reaching very strong intensity between October and […]
• Super El Nino Forecast: Four States Expected to Experience Significant Snow This Winter
  August 2, 2026
  “The tropical Pacific is already showing several classic early warning signs,” Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, an associate research scientist at the Columbia Climate School, revealed. “Subsurface ocean temperatures across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific have […]