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How water pumping change the Earth's surface?

How water pumping change the Earth's surface?

Summary: A recent study found that the Earth tilted about 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 due to human activity in extracting water out of the earth and transporting it to other locations. Scientists previously calculated that between 1993 and 2010, humanity pumped 2,150 gigatons of groundwater, or more than 6 millimeters (0.24 inches), of sea level increase, based on climate models. It's challenging to verify that estimate, though. One method involves using...
More than half of the lakes around the world are loosing water

More than half of the lakes around the world are loosing water

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...

Clean, sustainable fuels made 'from thin air' and plastic waste

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Posted on 25 June, 2023 by Charlotte Lee

 Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes -- or even directly from the air -- and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the Sun. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed a solar-powered reactor that converts captured CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemical products. In tests, CO2 was converted into syngas, a key building block for sustainable liquid fuels,...
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Today In History

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 16 October.

  1. Portland Maine burned by British.
  2. Washington takes Yorktown
  3. Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
  4. Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
  5. British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
  6. John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
  7. Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
  8. Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
  9. Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
  10. Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
  11. Disney Co founded
  12. Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
  13. Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
  14. 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
  15. Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
  16. Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
  17. Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
  18. Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
  19. Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
  20. China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
  21. Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
  22. Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
  23. Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
  24. Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
  25. Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
  26. Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
  27. Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
  28. Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
  29. Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
  30. Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
  31. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
  32. Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
  33. Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
  34. 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
  35. 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.