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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 12 October.
- Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
- British & French troops capture Peking.
- General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63.
- Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
- NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series
- Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning
- Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
- John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail.
- Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
- Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
- 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
- Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
- US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
- At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
- Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel
- USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
- Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
- Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
- Soyuz 7 is launched
- Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
- Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
- Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
- Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
- 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
- Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.