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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 8 October.
- The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted.
- 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
- Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
- Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
- Franklin Peirce 14th president of US died in Concord N.H.
- Nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo WI. Great Fire destroys over 4ý miles of Chicago
- Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
- Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25 captures 132 Germans.
- Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series
- Coit Tower dedicated in SF a monument to firefighters.
- Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
- Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
- Yanks sweep Reds in the world series
- Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet debut on CBS radio
- Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
- Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0
- Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
- Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer
- N Korea reports 100% election turnout 100% vote for Workers' Party.
- Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
- Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
- Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City
- Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
- 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7