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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 1 October.
- BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
- Treaty with Winnebago Indians
- Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
- 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
- 1st postcards are issued in Vienna
- Yosemite becomes a National Park
- Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
- 1st Baseball World Series
- Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory beats Walter Johnson 2-1
- Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
- Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season
- Yanks win their 1st pennant
- Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root
- Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
- Penn Turnpike pioneer toll thruway opened
- 1st jet propelled airplane tested
- Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season
- 1st helicopter air mail & express service LA Ca
- People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day)
- 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
- 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station Portland Or
- Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
- Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers last off of Tracy Sallard
- The Lucy Show premiers
- US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope
- Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show
- SF cable cars declared a national landmark
- Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida opens
- Reunion Island no longer prints stamps France takes over production
- Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
- Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox
- US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
- EPCOT Center opens