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Bleached branching coral (Acropora sp.) at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than cl... (photo: Creative Commons / Acropora at English Wikipedia) Grist
Coral Reefs   Environment   Photos   Science  
Pamir Highway, a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia The giant sheep helping Tajikistan weather climate change
In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep. | The breed, prized for profitability and a... (photo: Creative Commons / Hans Birger Nilsen) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Photos   Tajikistan   Weather  
A heat wave, or heatwave, is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries, May 23, 2021. Can we fight climate change with AI?
Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Telegram WhatsApp | With AI already making inroads in industry, education, and health worldwide, AI-driven technologies no... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Raimond Klavins) Sify
AI   Climate Change   Environment   Photos  
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people as it snakes through seven U.S. states, including the part of southeastern Utah seen in this photo snapped by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Colorado basin was identified in a NASA-led study as a region experiencing intense human water use. NASA-Led Research Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers
NASA & SPACE NEWS | A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth’s rivers, the rates at which it flows into the ocean,... (photo: NASA) Space Coast Daily
Environment   NASA   Photos   Science  
22nd Session of Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Grist
Human Rights   Indigenous   Photos   United Nations  
FILE - Young men cool themselves off in a waterfall in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 14, 2023. July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat. All the ways a hotter planet makes us sicker
There is scientific consensus that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planet’s recorded history. It will get progressively worse as this century sweats it out in a s... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed, File) Indian Express
Climate change   Health   Photos   Science  
The ocean is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth, February 21, 2021. How deep does life go?
Microbial life may be pervasive everywhere beneath Earth’s surface under conditions long thought to be inhospitable, if not fatal. DepositPhotos | This article was orig... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Michal Matlon) Popular Science
Environment   Nature   Photos   Science  
EP Plenary session - 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement New EU trade rules ‘green squeeze’ the Global South
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. | T... (photo: European Union 2024 - Source : EP / European Union 2024 - Source : EP) Asiatimes
Climate change   European Union   Global tradiing   Photos  
Various cryptocurrencies coins on table - Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Etherrum BlockDAG’s phenomenal presale raises $20.6M, swaying investor attention from Dogecoin’s Tesla tease & Avalanche’s price resilience
recently made waves with its monumental $20.6 million presale success, coupled with an innovative moon-shot keynote announcement. This groundbreaking initiative has captu... (photo: Creative Commons) CryptoNewsZ
Dogecoin   Photos   Trading   Wikipedia: Dogecoin   cryptocurrency  
In this image taken from NASA video, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough work outside the International Space Station on Sunday, June 20, 2021. NASA Rover Reaches Promising Place to Search for Fossilised Life on Mars
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to the official missio... (photo: AP / NASA) Gizmodo
Mars   NASA   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: NASA  
Crowds celebrate and wave flags while listening to the band music at the Salute to America event Thursday, July 4, 2019, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C Critical Race Theory and the Decline in American Civility
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. | Click the share button above to email/forward this article to your friends and colleag... (photo: Public Domain / White House) GlobalResearch
Human Rights   Photos   Population  
C-FTJV Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 Boeing sustainability chief says SAFs are unlikely to fall as low as jet fuel 
The use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is being encouraged by governments as a replacement for kerosene type fuels, to decarbonise the industry. | Boeing’s sustai... (photo: Creative Commons / Liam Allport) Offshore Technology
Energy   Oil   Photos   Sustainable aviation fuels  
A March 6, 2015 photo from files showing drawings of animal figures in the life size replica of Grotte Chauvet, or Chauvet cave, in Vallon Pont dArc, near Bollene, southern France Cave Art Symbols May Be Earliest Written Proto-Language, But Claim Faces Skepticism
Stunning works of art on cave walls at places like Lascaux and Chauvet are among humanity’s treasures, offering insight both into the ecology of a lost world and the ta... (photo: AP / Claude Paris) IFL Science
Culture   Photos   Population   Science  
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2018 file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nev. Tesla profit plunges 55%, as shares bounce on plans for cheaper vehicles
Tesla reported a 55 percent drop in profit amid fierce competition in the electric vehicle market, but shares rallied on plans to accelerate the production of more afford... (photo: AP / John Locher, File) Al Jazeera
Business   Electric vehicle market   Global Trading   Photos  
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signage is seen through a bus stop at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md., on the FDA grounds. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) FDA finds traces of H5N1 bird flu viruses in grocery store milk but says pasteurized ...
The US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it had detected viral particles of H5N1 avian influenza in milk purchased at grocery stores, but the agency says it ... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin) CNN
H5N1   Health   Photos  
Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Found on ISS Mutating to Become Functionally Distinct Bacteria On The ISS Have Mutated Into Something Not Seen On Earth Before
Movies and TV shows give the impression of space stations as aseptic and squeaky-clean environments. But wherever there are humans, there are all the bacteria that we bri... (photo: NASA) IFL Science
NASA   Photos   Science  
Brain Parkinson’s disease and the pleasure transmitter, dopamine
By Dr. Colin Michie FRCPCH University of Central Lancashire. | Dopamine is a brain messenger, released after pleasurable life events. Its enormous powers support our deve... (photo: Creative Commons) The Daily Herald - St Maarten
Health   Photos   Science  
File - An air polluting Factory in China near the Yangtze River. China Focus: AI algorithm maps out detailed carbon emissions for city managers
BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) tech to accurately map out carbon emissions in big cities. This is an at... (photo: Creative Commons / High Contrast) China.dot.org
AI   China   Emissions   Photos  
Alien - UFO - Unidentified flying object Forget Little Green Men – Alien Life Is Probably Mostly Purple
The best chance to find life on another planet is not to seek out a pale blue dot, nor worlds of forest green, a new paper argues. Instead, we need to be looking out for ... (photo: Creative Commons) IFL Science
NASA   Photos   Science  
Rice terraces in Muong Khuong (Lao Cai, Vietnam). May 13, 2010. In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van's rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam'... (photo: Creative Commons / Bi Thy o Nguyn/https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:B%C3%B9i_Th%E1%BB%A5y_%C4%90%C3%A0o_Nguy%C3%AAn) Phys Dot Org
Environment   Methane emissions   Photos   Vietnam