Category: The Earth
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Phoenix Sets New Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
After unanimous approval by the city council, the city of Phoenix has set a new ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. The plan is to cut carbon pollution from residents and businesses, continuing the City’s focus on sustainability over the last several years. This reduction goal…
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Electric-Blue Clouds Over Antarctica
There’s an electric blue glow in the skies above Antarctica. The strange glow is coming from noctilucent clouds. That’s according to recent images from NASA’s AIM spacecraft (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere), which monitors these clouds for the whole Earth. The season for night-shining clouds in the Southern Hemisphere is November to April, so they…
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What is a Snowflake?
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual…
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2017 Arctic Report Card
Now in it’s twelfth year, the 2017 Arctic Report Card was released December 12, 2017 at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in New Orleans. The NOAA-sponsored peer-reviewed report brings together the work of 85 scientists from 12 nations. The report shows the warming trend that’s transforming the Arctic region is persisting. The…
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California Fires: A View From Space
The 2017 California wildfire season is the worst on record, according to the California Department of Forestry. There are several fires burning across Southern California. The heavy winter rains earlier this year caused a spurt in the growth of vegetation, add an arid summer and unusually hot fall, mixed with the Santa Ana’s, the typical…
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ARE NIGHT SKIES GETTING BRIGHTER? (video)
Earth’s night skies continue to get brighter despite efforts of groups to reduce the effects of artificial lighting. One particular group, the International Dark-Sky Association has campaigned for decades to reduce artificial light at night. Yet a new study shows our night skies are still brightening at a yearly rate of 2 percent. A study…
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Do Dolphins Get Alzheimer’s?
Could Dolphins get Alzheimer’s Disease? Yes, According to a team of scientists from the US and the UK. In a recent report, it is stated that they discovered pathological signs of Alzheimer’s disease in dolphins. It’s the first time that these signs have been discovered together in marine animals. It is a fact that…
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Scientists warn: Soon it will be too late to save Earth | EarthSky.org
More than 15,000 scientists in 184 countries have signed a letter urging the world to address major environmental concerns. “Soon it will be too late to shift Source: Scientists warn: Soon it will be too late to save Earth | EarthSky.org
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The Antarctica Is Getting Greener, Stay Alert
What if we have no food to eat and oxygen to breathe? Our lives could be so hard. Trying to survive will need some special skills which may leave humanity at threat!
