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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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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 11 September.
- Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island
- English Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet.
- French astronomer G.D Cassini dies
- Battle of Brandywine Pa.; Americans lose to British.
- Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
- Battle of Lake Champlain N.Y.; Americans defeat British.
- Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind 1st US concert
- Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R.
- 1st electric telegraph in use Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
- 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood.
- US marines invade Honduras.
- After a single Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
- Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu.
- Yanks Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
- Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
- 1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger
- Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
- FDR dedicates Boulder Dam now known as Hoover Dam
- Charles Lindbergh charges `the British the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II
- FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
- 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
- US Defense Department formed
- 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
- Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
- 1st Miss America TV broadcast
- Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
- US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
- Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77
- BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
- Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
- TV's Rhoda gets divorced
- Pete Rose of the Cin Reds got career hit 4 192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.
- Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever plummeting 86.61 points to 1 792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
- Lorne Green dies at 72