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More than half of the lakes around the world are loosing water
Posted on 26 June, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary: A recent study found that 53 percent of the greatest freshwater lakes on earth are in decline and are now retaining less water than they did thirty years ago. The study measured changes in water levels in roughly 2,000 of the largest lakes and reservoirs in the globe using satellite measurements spanning decades. It was discovered that human consumption, sedimentation, and climate change are to blame .
However, the lead author, former CIRES visiting fellow and current climate...
AI discovers flora's hidden characteristics to aid save species
Posted on 4 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:To research and mitigate the effects of climate change on flora, scientists from UNSW and the Sydney Botanic Gardens have trained AI to access data from millions of plant specimens maintained in herbaria around the world.
Associate Professor Will Cornwell, the study's principal author, adds that herbarium collections are incredible "time capsules of plant specimens." It's no longer feasible to go through items manually because the National Herbarium of New South Wales alone...
Climate change, causing oceans to become more green
Posted on 16 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
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More than half of the world's oceans have become greener over the past 20 years, likely due to global warming. This was determined by analyzing 20 years of data on ocean color from NASA's Aqua satellite.
The greening indicates increased phytoplankton and algae in the surface waters. Phytoplankton contain chlorophyll which makes the ocean appear greener.
The tropical and subtropical waters between 40°S and 40°N latitude changed the most in color. These areas...
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The Underground Hydrogen Rush: A Cheap Green Fuel or Just a Pipe Dream?
Posted on 20 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For most of the past century, the idea that hydrogen gas could be sitting underground in commercially viable deposits simply did not register as a possibility worth entertaining. Geologists knew the Earth produces hydrogen constantly through reactions between iron-rich rock and water, and through the splitting of water molecules by radioactive decay. They also knew that microbes eat it, that geochemical reactions consume it, and that its molecules are small enough to slip through rock...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 2 October.
- BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
- Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
- NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
- Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
- Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
- 1st Pan American conference
- Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
- Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
- Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
- NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens
- 1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas
- Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
- Birdbaths installed in Union Square
- 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago
- 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
- Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer
- Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16
- Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
- The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
- 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
- Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
- Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
- Ben Casey premiers
- Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
- Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
- Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
- Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
- homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
- Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
- 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit