Picture: Google Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it is receiving a major update with the introduction of a new 3D timelapse characteristic. Described by …
Read More »Singapore’s Temasek and BlackRock Commit $ 600 Million to Reduce Carbon
BlackRock President and CEO Laurence D. Fink attends a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on January 23, 2020. FABRIC COFFRINI Singapore State Investor Temasek …
Read More »Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is in trouble, new data shows
Ran, the unscrewed submarine the scientists used, heading deep into the Thwaites Glacier.Photo: Filip Stedt (fake images) Glaciers all on Antarctica are in trouble like ice there melts quickly. There is no …
Read More »For the first time, scientists have detected X-rays coming out of Uranus
Each planet in the Solar System has its own idiosyncrasies, but Uranus is truly one of a kind. Not only is it tilted sideways so its axis of rotation is practically parallel …
Read More »Echoes from a comet that crashed in 1994 have revealed new data about Jupiter
It collided with Jupiter in 1994, but Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 apparently still has things to teach us about the largest planet in the Solar System. A new analysis of the impact traces …
Read More »Astronomers spot a ‘unique weather beast’ on Jupiter
Representation of stratospheric winds near Jupiter’s south pole.Picture: THAT For the first time, astronomers have measured the winds within Jupiter’s middle atmosphere, revealing unexpectedly fast jet streams within the planet’s deepest layers. …
Read More »The Amazon could be making climate change worse, scientists warn
It’s no secret that the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, is under immense pressure, approaching an ecological tipping point and at risk of collapse. But the situation is far worse than we …
Read More »Dropping oxygen will eventually suffocate most of life on Earth.
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth was not always like this, and scientists have predicted that in the future, the atmosphere will once again become rich in …
Read More »For the first time, a ‘space hurricane’ has been detected over the North Pole
For the first time, a hurricane has been detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. In 2014, the satellites recorded a huge swirl of plasma spreading into the magnetosphere that lasted for hours …
Read More »Earth’s magnetic field reversed 42,000 years ago. The consequences were dramatic
A global period of upheaval 42,000 years ago was the result of a reversal in the Earth’s magnetic field, new research has found. Based on the radiocarbon preserved in ancient tree rings, …
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