Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could add twice as much to sea levels as feared, study finds
Warm water is reaching deeper beneath Thwaites Glacier than thought, raising the odds it breaks free of the undersea ridge that holds it in place.
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The leap second is on its way out: world timekeepers move to drop it from May 2027
Meeting in Versailles, the world's metrology body considered ending leap seconds eight years early, to avoid an unprecedented 'negative' second as Earth's spin speeds up.
Nobel Prizes 2026: Navi Pillay wins the Peace Prize — here are this year's laureates
The South African jurist was honoured for promoting peace and international law. Canadian poet Anne Carson took literature and IceCube's Francis Halzen won physics.
