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Climate change is making days longer, as the melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets causes water to move closer to the equator, fattening the planet and slowing its rotation, according to a recent study. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used both observations and reconstructions to track variations of mass at Earth’s surface since …

London — On a dead-end road in London’s Islington district, CBS News found Tim Bushe trimming his hedge. It was an ordinary scene in the neighborhood of row houses until you stepped back to take in the full scale of the neatly pruned topiary — in the form of a giant locomotive. “Philippa, my wife, used to sit in the …

Mason Branstrator has always been an athlete, but three years ago, at just 17 years old, his active lifestyle changed forever. “I was going for an ordinary day of downhill skiing, but this time, it was a lot different,” Mason, an experienced skier who frequented the slopes in his home state of Minnesota, told CBS News. “I remember thinking right …