Huffington Post
New Photos Show Just How Bad Mass Coral Bleaching Is On The Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of the most extensive and serious coral bleaching events in recorded history after a summer of extreme temperatures and oceanic heat effectively cooked the delicate corals that make up the iconic structure. The Australian Institute of Marine...
New York Times - Climate Section
The disaster, intensified by El Niño, is devastating communities across several countries, killing crops and livestock and sending food prices soaring. An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls “acute hunger” as one of the worst droughts in more...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
A drought that pushed millions of people into hunger across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Niño weather pattern - not climate change, scientists said on Thursday. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and...
Washington Post - Climate and Environment
Great Barrier Reef experiencing one of its worst coral bleaching events
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of its worst bleaching events since monitoring began nearly four decades ago, authorities say, with much of the famed reef showing signs of damage as warming ocean temperatures blight reefs worldwide. Bleaching occurs when heat-stressed coral...
4 possible outcomes of the proposed flexibility on carbon credits. At the heart of the debate lies a fundamental question about how to advance global decarbonization. Source: metamorworks via Shutterstock On April 9, the board of trustees of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) announced...
China is bolstering its space capabilities and is using its civilian program to mask its military objectives, the head of the US space agency NASA said Wednesday, warning that Washington must remain vigilant. "China has made extraordinary strides especially in the last 10 years, but they are...
PHYS.ORG - Technology
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to visit India as his businesses seek new markets in the world's most populous nation, with electric carmaker Tesla - suffering a sales downturn in the United States - reportedly scouting factory locations. Another Musk-owned business, satellite internet...
Union of Concerned Scientists - Global Warming
Fossil Fuel Companies Make Billions in Profit as We Suffer Billions in Losses: 2024 Edition
Above: Lahaina, Hawai’i after the devastating August 2023 wildfire that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 2,700 homes. Last year, I wrote that fossil fuel companies made billions of dollars in profit during 2022 as people around the world suffered billions of dollars in damage from...
Q&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the twin climate and poverty crises
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The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission - and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency's Jet...
The camels had thump-thumped for seven days across northern Kenya, ushered by police reservists, winding at last toward their destination: less a village than a dusty clearing in the scrub, a place where something big was happening. People had walked for miles to be there. Soon the governor...
This story was produced as part of Climate Solutions, a collaboration focused on community engagement and solutions-based reporting to help Central Pennsylvania move toward climate literacy, resilience and adaptation. StateImpact Pennsylvania convened the collaboration; WITF is a Climate...
PHYS.ORG - Biology
Advanced nuclear magnetic resonance technique reveals precise structural, dynamical details in zeolites
Atomic-scale analysis of local environments for the hydroxyl species is essential for revealing the intrinsic catalytic activity of zeolites and guiding the design of high-performance catalysts. However, many unfavorable factors prohibit the elucidation of their fine structures such as low...
If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different species branching off as new blooms, then new research shows how the branches may actually be more entangled. In "Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits," published in Nature, Harvard researchers...
Amazon removed Just Walk Out from many of its own stores but wants to sell the system to others
Amazon wants the public and - especially other businesses - to know it's not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology. Although the company is ditching the cashier-less checkout system at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, it plans to sell the technology to more than 120 third-party businesses by...
Birds of a feather flocking together: Research shows storks prefer to fly with conspecifics during migration
Now, a study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany, has an explanation for how this collective phenomenon forms: the storks are choosing to fly together. With data on lifetime migrations of 158 storks, the study provides the first evidence of the social preference...
And until recently, our knowledge of microorganisms in Antarctica was non-existent, where the effects of climate change are arguably the most profound. But a paper published recently in Conservation Biology provides a new snapshot of the changing composition of microorganisms in Antarctica....
Control of temperature dependent viscosity for manufacturing of Bi-doped active fiber
The work could guide the development of heavily doped Bi active fibers, which exhibit great potential for application in the next-generation optical amplifiers. Bi-dopants exhibit multi-chemical states and can transform into a deactivated state when the bulk is drawn into the fiber at high...