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- • 93%Featuredwww.whitehouse.gov American Climate Corps | The White House
President Biden is announcing a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps will put a new generation of Americans to work conserving our lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, advancing environmental justice...
- • 100%www.newscientist.com Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days
Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its source has been identified as a standing wave caused by a landslide in Greenland
- • 100%theconversation.com India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every day
The hydropower dam is part of a huge effort to boost India’s homegrown energy. But it will radically disrupt the lives and livelihoods of indigenous communities in the flood plains downstream.
- • 100%www.motherjones.com Coral reefs are getting sick, and this human medicine might help
Antibiotics, it turns out, are a useful tool for keeping Caribbean ecosystems alive.
- • 90%grist.org As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?
Relatively warm ocean currents are weakening the base of Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier, whose demise could raise sea levels by as much as 7 feet. To separate the ice from those warmer ocean waters, scientists have put forward an audacious plan to erect a massive underwater curtain.
- • 100%www.newyorker.com Studying Stones Can Rock Your World
To think like a geologist is to contemplate timescales that stagger the imagination—and lay bare the planetary forces behind our earthly existence.
- • 98%apnews.com Workers breach key Klamath dams, allowing salmon to swim freely for the first time in a century
Workers have breached the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion.
- • 100%grist.org Thawing Alaskan permafrost is unleashing more mercury, confirming scientists' worst fears
A new study reveals mercury levels in melting Arctic permafrost that pose disproportionate dangers for Indigenous peoples.
- • 97%www.theguardian.com California sees ‘winter wonderland’ in summer for first time in 20 years
Unusually strong and rare snow system dusted Sierra Nevada mountain range early Saturday
This summer, Californians have had to endure blistering heatwaves, raging wildfires – and now snow.
An unusually strong and rare snow system dusted California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range early Saturday, the first time snow has fallen in August in the so-called Golden State in more than 20 years.
About 3in fell in Lassen Volcanic national park, according to the weather service. But most areas just got a dusting with summertime temps returning 24 hours later.
The rare summer snowstorm nonetheless caused a record amount of rainfall in Redding, Red Bluff and Stockton in northern California on Saturday, the weather service said.
The “anomalous cool conditions” spread over much of the western US through Sunday morning, according to the weather service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
- • 94%www.vox.com This coral reef has given scientists hope for years. Now they’re worried.
Coral around the Dutch island has recovered from past bleaching and hurricanes. Now it faces disease and severe marine heat, putting its strength to the test.
- • 95%arstechnica.com An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds
Analysis of ruthenium isotopes showed the impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid.
- • 100%grist.org Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
- www.bbc.com Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.
- insideclimatenews.org NOAA Affirms Expectations for Extraordinarily Active Hurricane Season - Inside Climate News
The federal agency issued a slight revision down from its May forecast, which called for the most named storms the agency had ever predicted.
- • 87%www.gu.se A whole new view on glacier melting in Antarctica
An international research team deployed the unmanned submarine ‘Ran’ from the University of Gothenburg underneath thick ice in Antarctica. They got back the very first detailed maps of the underside of a glacier, revealing clues to future sea level rise.
- • 100%theconversation.com Ancient poppy seeds and willow wood offer clues to the Greenland ice sheet’s last meltdown and a glimpse into a warmer future
Our discovery of a tundra ecosystem, frozen under the center of Greenland’s ice sheet, holds a warning about the threat that climate change poses for the future.
- insideclimatenews.org Tropical Glaciers in the Andes Are the Smallest They’ve Been in 11,700 Years - Inside Climate News
Four different glaciers along the Andes range no longer have hospitable conditions.
- • 100%grist.org Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
As global temperatures rise and seasons shift, bees and other pollinators are missing critical connections with flowers and crops.
- • 100%eos.org How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”? - Eos
Geochemical sleuthing amid acid mine runoff suggests that scientists should rethink an isotope signal long taken to indicate low levels of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s deep past.
- • 100%davidar.io Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes
This post delves into the implementation of my procedural earth simulation, written entirely in GLSL fragment shaders. It simulates the complete history of an earth-like planet in a few minutes, with the simulation updating at 60 frames per second.
- • 100%theconversation.com Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption 520,000 years ago in south Aegean Sea
A newly discovered half-million-year-old layer of volcanic sediment beneath the Aegean Sea rewrites what scientists know about this area’s volcanic history – and potential future hazards.
- • 95%gizmodo.com Scientists Shocked by Electric Rocks Producing Oxygen in Deep Ocean
The discovery that electric rocks make oxygen challenges the long-held belief that only photosynthetic organisms produce our planet's oxygen.
- • 85%www.bbc.com Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.
- • 100%www.nature.com Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor — bewildering scientists
A chemical reaction could be producing oxygen by splitting water molecules, but its source of energy remains unknown.
- • 97%www.theguardian.com ‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences
Michel Forst, UN special rapporteur, joins growing chorus of voices criticising jail terms handed to five defendants
- • 100%www.sciencedaily.com Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans a major threat to ecosystems, society, and planet
Oxygen is a fundamental requirement of life, and the loss of oxygen in water, referred to as aquatic deoxygenation, is a threat to life at all levels. In fact, researchers describe how ongoing deoxygenation presents a major threat to the stability of the planet as a whole.
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New study reveals that mussels, oysters and other sealife contains an excess amount of fiberglass
www.salon.com New study reveals that mussels, oysters and other sealife contains an excess amount of fiberglass | Salon.comAward-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.
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- • 100%grist.org How the last queen of Hawaiʻi is influencing the debate over deep-sea mining
Indigenous leaders want a say in the future of the oceans, especially when it comes to deep sea mining for minerals.
- • 77%www.washingtonpost.com Did this citizen scientist develop the perfect, chemical-free lawn?
Jackson Madnick has developed a grass seed mix that can thrive without chemicals and with minimal watering.
- www.nature.com Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene - Nature Communications
Molecular fossils from marine phytoplankton reveal a substantial decline in CO2 values over the past 15 million years and may support higher climate sensitivity than previously reported.
- • 98%www.nbcnews.com 'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose all of its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.
- • 96%arstechnica.com Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife
Scientists are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity.
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- • 92%www.space.com The rotation of Earth's inner core is slowing down
Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface.