The fate of Arctic sea ice
Our warming world means the fate of Arctic sea ice could be in peril, along with the plants, animals and rich ecosystem that call it home.
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True polar wander: A shift 84 million years ago
The fossil magnetism of rocks in Italy revealed true polar wander – a major shift in Earth’s outer shell relative to its spin axis – 84 million years ago.
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Above all, scientists fear tipping points of climate change | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah
As the United Nations climate summit in Scotland’s Glasgow approach, leaders from around the world are gearing up for a do-or-die showdown to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit). However, breaching that limit may not be…
20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: âHoly mother of god. It worked!â
“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor whoâs spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection. Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that […]
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Wind energy could cut global warming by up to 0.8 degrees C, says report – Landscape News
For the latest climate change science, join the Global Landscapes Forum at COP 26 for GLF Climate (5-7 November, 2021). The amount of wind that blows across the planet could fulfill the world’s electricity demand many times over. Yet 63.3 percent of the world’s electricity…
Paper: Gulf Stream And Japanese Current Synced On Decadal Time Scale
A team of researchers with members affiliated with a large number of institutions across Japan has found that the Gulf stream and Kuroshio are synchronized on a decadal time scale. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group…
19 hidden planets revealed by their auroras
Scientists have discovered 19 possible hidden planets, detected through radio waves they believe are from red dwarf stars interacting with exoplanets.
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With a Warming Climate, Coastal Fog Around the World Is Declining – InsideClimate News
Fog is a defining element of summer in Santa Cruz, obscuring the view of day trippers descending the hills to the coast and prompting kids to bundle up to hop on their bikes for summer adventures. Its fingerprints are visible…
Recipients of the Physics prize pinpointed humans’ effect on climate change. – The New York Times
Three scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work that is essential to understanding how the Earth’s climate is changing, pinpointing the effect of human behavior on those changes and ultimately predicting the impact of global warming….
Global Warming And Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry Of Saruhashi Katsuko – Women You Should Know
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might result from the explosion, with the most terrifying models predicting that…
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