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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 21 October.
- US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
- Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
- Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
- 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
- Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
- Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
- Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
- During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
- Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
- Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
- Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
- JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
- Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
- Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
- Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
- 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
- Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
- Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.