Pacific winter snowstorm coming ⦠again
A Pacific winter storm has the US West Coast in its sights. Flooding rainfall, wind, and snow measured in feet are in store over the weekend.
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Of 4 types of planetary systems, ours is rarest
A new study suggests there are 4 types of planetary systems. The Ordered class, which includes our own solar system, is the rarest.
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Where more people will die — and live — because of hotter temperatures – The Washington Post
But that wasn’t all that was happening. A month later, the same research group, which is based out of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but includes scientists from dozens of countries, released another peer-reviewed study that told…
Pale Blue Dot 33 years later: Earth in a sunbeam
February 14, 2023, is the 33rd anniversary of the Voyager 1 image of Earth. Voyager was near Saturn when it took this image, now known as the Pale Blue Dot.
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Ten Companies That Are Establishing Innovative Recycling Programs
Per the EPA, over 292 million tons of waste were generated in 2018 and only 94 million tons were recycled or composted. Only a third of all generated trash is recycled, so there’s a lot of room for improvement.Sometimes, people cannot find appropriate ways to recycle items they know are made from recyclable materials. Your […]
Itâs spoke season on Saturn!
Spoke season on Saturn comes in cycles centered on Saturn’s equinoxes, which happen only about every 15 years. It’s happening now!
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US military retrieval of Chinese balloon
The military used underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels to retrieve all pieces of the Chinese balloon shot down in early February, 2023.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: Death toll passes 7,000
The Turkey-Syria earthquake of February 6, 2023 – a 7.8 magnitude earthquake – has wreaked devastation on the area. Images, links and updates here.
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AI predicts global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees in 2030s | Stanford News – Stanford University News
January 30, 2023 Earth likely to cross critical climate thresholds even if emissions decline, Stanford study finds Artificial intelligence provides new evidence our planet will cross the global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius within 10 to 15 years. Even…
Biden Starts A Climate Trade War Using Taxpayer Subsidies
Wasn’t President Biden going to end Donald Trump’s destructive trade wars against allies? Apparently not. His “super aggressive” climate protectionism—to quote French President Emmanuel Macron—is infuriating U.S. friends and may set off a subsidy and tariff war. U.S. allies are…
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