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The Thwaites 'Doomsday' glacier's ice shelf is about to break away

Episode 372 Part of the world’s widest glacier is about to collapse – one of the dramatic changes underway that could ultimately trigger a 3 metre rise in sea levels, threatening coastal cities around the world. Thwaites is a massive glacier in Antarctica – the size of Florida. A ...  Show more

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Some Scientists Want To Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Even Possible?

Episode 371 The moa was a giant flightless bird from New Zealand that died out around 500 years ago. Are we about to see it brought back from extinction? Colossal Biosciences say they have made an artificial egg shell that is a step towards recreating the massive eggs of moas (an ...  Show more

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