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Earth, Environment, and Geosciences
- 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.
- Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene, suggesting climate sensitivity far higher than previous IPCC modelswww.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.
- 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.
- Surprising Source of the Stinky Gas (DMS) That's Trying to Cool Our Planet
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- 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.
- www.theguardian.com Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere
- theconversation.com EPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US
The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
- grist.org The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?
Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you'd think.
- www.motherjones.com Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings: How human drugs are harming animals
Researchers are observing addiction, anxiety, and sex reversal as our substances contaminate ecosystems.
- grist.org As the climate changes, many species are teetering on extinction. How much should we intervene?
In ecosystems like Alaska’s boreal forest, preventing biodiversity loss is no longer possible. Scientists are beginning to grapple with what comes next.
- www.sciencealert.com There's a Hidden Water Cycle in The Amazon We Barely Know Anything About
Earth's largest remaining tract of tropical rainforest is kept alive by a complex water cycle that we're only just beginning to understand.
- phys.org Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of Earth's top hazards, comes into sharper focus
Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move...
Interesting article about the latest geophysical survey of the Cascadia fault
- grist.org A new satellite could help solve one of our climate's biggest mysteries: Clouds
The EarthCARE satellite is poised to provide an unprecedented look at how clouds and aerosols shape, and respond to, climate change.
- grist.org Who’s afraid of Hurricane Debby? The peculiar importance of a storm's name.
Giving hurricanes human names makes them memorable, but the practice has resulted in some strange side effects.
Slightly off-topic for this community but still an interesting read
- Rotting sargassum is choking the Caribbean’s white sand beaches, fueling an economic and public health crisistheconversation.com Sargassum is choking the Caribbean’s white sand beaches, fueling an economic and public health crisis
A leading driver of this seaweed invasion is pollution, carried down rivers and into the Atlantic Ocean from the continents.
- www.sciencealert.com Giant Tonga Volcanic Eruption Could Disrupt Weather For Years to Come
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga.
- theconversation.com Avocados are a ‘green gold’ export for Mexico, but growing them is harming forests and waters
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
- landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83
The Brunt Ice Shelf lost a large wedge of floating ice, the third sizeable iceberg to calve from the shelf in recent years. The TIRS instrument on Landsat 9 captured false-color images of the calving.
- grist.org Oil companies contaminated a family farm. The courts and regulators let the drillers walk away.
The first sign of trouble bubbled up from gopher holes a stone’s throw from Stan Ledgerwood’s front door. The salt water left an oily sheen on the soil and a swath of dead grass in the yard. It was June 2017, and Ledgerwood and his wife, Tina, had recently built a home on the family […]
- www.motherjones.com "No Mow May" won't fix our biodiversity problems
Lawns and our relationship with them are, well, kind of complicated.
- The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed.apps.npr.org The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
- www.noaa.gov Nothing to sneeze at: New research shows pollen can change the weather
Experimental model explores connection between air quality and weather
- phys.org Climate report: US struck with more than 100 tornadoes, heavy snow in April
April continued the year's warm streak, with 2024 ranking as the fifth-warmest year on record for the nation so far.
- phys.org World extends run of heat records for an 11th month in a row
April was the Earth's 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe.
- www.newsweek.com NASA map reveals how much water Earth's rivers hold
The Colorado River basin was flagged as a region depleted due to heavy water use, as was the Amazon in South America.
- grist.org US military bases teem with PFAS. There's still no firm plan to clean them up.
In 2016, Tony Spaniola received a notice informing him that his family shouldn’t drink water drawn from the well at his lake home in Oscoda, Michigan. Over the course of several decades, the Air Force had showered thousands of gallons of firefighting foam onto the ground at Wurtsmith Air Force Base,...
- www.newsweek.com Colorado streams are being loaded with "toxic" heavy metals
The amount of copper, zinc and sulfate has doubled in the alpine streams flowing from the mountains over the past three decades.
- www.vox.com The end of coral reefs as we know them
Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now it’s unfolding.
- Forecast group predicts busiest hurricane season on record with 33 storms
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- www.france24.com UAE announces $544 mn for rain repairs, says lessons 'learned'
The United Arab Emirates announced $544 million to repair the homes of Emirati families on Wednesday after last week's record rains caused widespread flooding and brought the oil-rich Gulf state to a…