Written by Kenneth Richard
Biomarker evidence for Arctic-region sea ice coverage in the northern Barents Sea indicates the most extensive sea ice conditions of the last 9,500 years occurred during the 20th century (0 cal yr BP).
Written by David Archibald
It is a remarkable thing that the U.K. and Irish parliaments were able to hypnotize themselves and pass climate emergency legislation when the southern half of the planet has not warmed at all in 120 years.
Written by www.abeldanger.org
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has decided not to declare a global health emergency over the ebola virus, the time for calling for one is approaching.
A “public health emergency of international concern,” or what’s called PHEIC (pronounced “fake”) is an official designation the WHO can give to an outbreak in order to sound the international alarm.
Written by Albert Parker
For the upcoming Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) a rate of global mean sea level rise over 1980-2000 is touted faster than during any preceding 20-year period since at least 1000 BCE.
Written by BBC
Image copyright COSMIC_BACKGROUND/INSTAGRAMAmateur space photographer Andrew McCarthy, or ‘space nerd’ as he calls himself on his Instagram account, has a passion for astronomy, thanks to his dad introducing him to the moon through his telescope when he was a child.
Written by James Conca
Cobalt is a grey metal that is essential to our new technological world. It is a preferred component in lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, cell phones, and electric vehicles. These exploding applications are causing the use of Co to skyrocket.
Written by Robert Kraychik
CrossFit criticized Facebook’s arbitrary censorship practices in a Thursday statement, announcing that the company “will no longer support or use Facebook’s services until further notice.” CrossFit will also stop using Facebooks Instagram and WhatsApp platforms.
Written by Paul Rincon
Image copyright CLEPThe Chinese Chang’e-4 rover may have confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast crater on the Moon’s far side.
The rover’s landing site lies within a vast impact depression created by an asteroid strike billions of years ago.
Written by Pierre Gosselin
The Jena, Germany-based climate science and renewable energies group European Institute For Climate and Energy(EIKE) has sent a cease and desist letter to Wikimedia headquarters in San Francisco demanding that the platform remove all the “false content” in the German language entry about the organization.
Written by Joshua Sokol
Written by Chris Ciaccia
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans may have a $2.5 trillion impact, negatively affecting “almost all marine ecosystem services,” including areas such as fisheries, recreation and heritage.
But a breakthrough from scientists at Berkeley Lab could be the solution the planet needs for this eye-opening problem – recyclable plastics.
Written by John Hinderaker
I’m so old, I can remember when global warming caused droughts. Or, put another way, climate change was making the Earth–in particular, the Great Lakes–drier. Thus, as I noted here:
Written by Pierre Gosselin
A new study appearing in the Journal of Weather and Climate Extremes titled “Historical extreme rainfall events in southeastern Australia” – led by LindenAshcroft, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne – shows that much more extreme weather in terms of rainfall existed before 1900 in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide.
Written by Dung Pham
Experiments of Michelson-Morley and Sagnac have demonstrated that there is wind Aether. Michelson-Morley ‘s experiment did not produce the expected results. There was a slight error in the experiment. That is because we misunderstand Aether.
Written by Lauren Lipuma, American Geophysical Union
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
Are you ready to evolve?
As Fox News reports, once man (and woman, I presume) have become settled on Mars, evolution to super-mutant Marslings (or similar) is inevitable.