Global warming driving more extreme droughts and floods, NASA satellites show – USA TODAY

Twenty years of NASA’s global satellite data show just how much the extent, duration and severity of extreme droughts and floods have risen alongside warming global temperatures, a new study reveals. The study looked at the timing of such events…

200-foot asteroid 2023 DZ2 to pass closer than moon

Newly discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will safely pass Earth at less than half the distance of the moon on March 25, 2023. Telescope owners, get ready!

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MIND and Mediterranean Diets are Associated with Fewer Alzheimer’s Plaques and Tangles

Eating leafy greens, nuts, and fish, among other food items typical of the Mediterranean Diet, was found to be associated in elderly brains with fewer plaques thought to cause Alzheimer’s. It is believed that the disease is caused by a build-up of tau proteins called amyloid-beta, which block neuron connections. Scientists at the American Academy […]

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Holding Anti-Fossil-Fuel Leaders Responsible For The Global Energy Crisis

We are in a global energy crisis. As people look for solutions to this crisis, it is crucial that the right people get implicated (leaders of the anti-fossil-fuel movement) and the right people get vindicated (advocates of energy freedom). Here’s…

How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

Increasing availability of open-access data from government satellites have made it possible for everyone to gain insight into environmental changes underway

Catalonia launches operation to clear fish from reservoir to save drinking water

Officials in Catalonia have launched what is being described as an extraordinary operation to clear as many as 1.5 tonnes of fish a day, including many invasive species, from a rapidly dwindling reservoir in the hopes of salvaging drinking water…

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves – InsideClimate News

In 2016, disturbing footage captured on a sunny beach in Argentina went viral. The video appeared in news outlets around the world under variations of a disquieting headline: “Baby dolphin dies after a mob of tourists pass it around to…

Carbon capture projects tackling climate change – Al Jazeera English

A groundbreaking offshore carbon capture and storage site will be launched in the Danish part of the North Sea on Wednesday. Carbon dioxide captured in Belgium and transported by ship is to be injected into a depleted oil field 200km…

Twenty-five trailblazing women leading the fight against climate change – Reuters

March 7 – With so many extraordinary women engaged in the battle against climate change, the biggest task in compiling Reuters Impact’s list of trailblazing women for International Women’s Day was whittling down our long list to only 25. We…

The food we eat is ramping up global warming, study warns – 9News

Unless humans rapidly change mass food production systems, including eating less beef and dairy, emissions from the sector could add nearly 1 degree to global temperatures by 2100, a study has warned. If that modelling is accurate, the 1.5 degrees…