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Solar eclipses don’t just look cool – they can send gravity waves rippling through Earth’s atmosphere like dropping a stone in a pond. An international team of students has measured these gravity waves for the first time.Continue ReadingCategory: Scien… Continue reading Solar eclipses send “gravity waves” through Earth’s atmosphere
“Solar farms could blanket millions of acres in the United States over the coming decades,” writes the New York Times.
But “the sites that capture that energy take up land that wildlife needs to survive and thrive.”
“We have to address both challen… Continue reading Solar Farms Look to Produce Something Apart From Power: Friendly Habitats for Wildlife
An intense heatwave across the US west has brought unusually warm temperatures to the region — some of the highest of the season — and broken heat records. From a report: Millions of Americans from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Seattle are under heat ale… Continue reading Heatwave Across US West Breaks Records For Highest Temperatures
Europe’s food and farming lobbies have recognized the need to eat less meat after hammering out a shared vision for the future of agriculture with green groups and other stakeholders. From a report: The wide-ranging report calls for “urgent, ambitious … Continue reading Europe’s Farming Lobbies Recognize Need To Eat Less Meat in Shared Vision Report
An anonymous reader quotes a Bloomberg article, written by Jason Leopold: The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is a colorful display in the night sky that comes from geomagnetic storms in space. When charged particles from the sun smash into the Ea… Continue reading Northern Lights Imperiled Infrastructure From Power Grids To Satellites
Japan has recorded its hottest summer on record after a sweltering three months marked by thousands of instances of “extreme heat,” with meteorologists warning that unseasonably high temperatures will continue through the autumn. From a report: The ave… Continue reading Japan Swelters Through Hottest Summer While Parts of China Log Warmest August on Record
Stumbling on a giant gold nugget and never working again is something we’ve all daydreamed about, but how exactly do they form? A new experiment has found that earthquakes and electricity might be key ingredients.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: … Continue reading Giant gold nuggets could be born from earthquakes and electricity
“Houston resident Brandy Deason put an Apple AirTag in her recycling to see where her plastic trash was going,” writes Tom’s Hardware.
“While many might expect the city would drop the recyclables off at a recycling center, Deason instead found her tr… Continue reading Apple AirTags Track ‘Recycled’ Plastic to Unprocessed Piles in an Open-Air Lot
NASA scientists have discovered a third global energy field around Earth. Known as the ambipolar electric field, this force drives charged particles into space above the poles.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Earth, Electric, NASA, Atmosphere, Io… Continue reading NASA discovers a new global energy field around Earth
A climate newsletter from the Los Angeles Times asked the question: Is it ethical to have children in the face of climate change?
And they start by noting many people ask that question:
A Pew Research Survey published in July found that among U.S. ad… Continue reading ‘Is It Ethical to Have Children in the Face of Climate Change?’