Terminator zones and the search for life

A new study shows that exoplanet terminator zones – regions on worlds with permanent day and night sides – might be able to support life.

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Inventing The Apocalypse: Climate Doomsday Predictions Haven’t Aged Well

We have been told nearly every year for the past 50-plus years that we have only ten years to live. If you figure that one out, you’re good, as Groucho Marx would say. On March 20, the New York Times…

There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other

Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural land were flooded and 90% of the crops in Sindh, a…

Fact check: Antarctic ice sheet mass study shows global warming – USA TODAY

The claim: NASA Antarctic ice sheet study shows global warming is a ‘con’ A Jan. 31 Facebook post features a link to a 2015 NASA press release announcing research that concluded the Antarctic ice sheet gained ice between 1992 and 2008. …

Claude Lorius: Pioneering French climate change scientist dies aged 91 – BBC

Getty Images By Daniel Mann & Marita Moloney BBC News Claude Lorius, a leading glaciologist whose expeditions helped prove that humans were responsible for global warming, has died at the age of 91. He led 22 expeditions to Greenland and…

Climate change making Earth ‘uninhabitable’ Guterres warns – UN News

He laid down the challenge to governments worldwide, to make 2023 a year of “transformation, not tinkering” when it comes to seriously addressing climate change, with meaningful climate action. ‘Closer to the brink’ “Every year of insufficient action to keep…

On Distant Planets that Don’t Rotate, Life May Exist Under Skies of Permanent Dawn and Dusk

In a new study, astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the ‘terminator zone.’ Despite its frightening-sounding name, it’s better thought of as the “ending zone” and can be found on planets that have one side which always faces its star and one side […]

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Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming: UN Chief – NDTV

Guterres voiced concern that human activity is driving the temperature to dangerous new levels (File) United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, all hugely important for India, could…

Global warming persists as there’s no end in sight – The Hornet

Braedan Lukens   (Tennessee Power Plant photo taken from National Geographic by Emory Kristoff)                       Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature, and its pace has increased in the past century. According to National Geographic, global…

Warming Across Generations – Climate Central

KEY CONCEPTS March 23 is World Meteorological Day, marking the date in 1950 when the World Meteorological Organization was established.  New Climate Central analysis explores the theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day, The Future of Weather, Climate and Water…