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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 10 October.
- US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
- Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
- 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
- Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
- China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
- Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
- Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
- 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
- George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
- Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
- Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
- Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
- Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
- On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
- Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
- Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
- Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
- treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR.
- 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
- Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
- VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
- Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
- Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
- NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
- Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
- Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
- 4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
- Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
- Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
- Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
- US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody