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Lead author Dr. Piero Mazzini (R) measures ocean conditions during an oceanographic field project. Credit: Oregon State University. #MarineHeatwaves; #shallowwaterecosystems; #ClimateChange Heatwaves—like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last …
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Severe snowstorm #Ontario; #Quebec; #SnowStorm; #SchoolsClosed Ottawa/cmedia: A severe snowstorm in Ontario and Quebec have caused schools in these provinces either to be closed or move to online learning today. …
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#UN; #Environment; #Volcano; Tsumami An island in the Pacific Ocean (Archive). Image credit: Bernard Spragg #UN; #volcanoEruption; #Tsunami New York/cmedia: Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his deep concern after reports of …
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#SpaceTime; #TimeDilation; # QuantumTechnologies; #AharonovBohmEffect; #Gravity California/cmedia: A team of researchers working at Stanford University has used time dilation in an atomic fountain to measure the curvature of space-time. In …
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Shells of land snails from Rurutu (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) — recently extinct before they were collected and described scientifically. Credit: O. Gargominy, A. Sartori. #MassExtinction; #Biodiversity; #Environment; New York/cmedia: …
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#NASAAnalysis; #Environment; #ClimateChange; #NOAA; #GISS Washington/cmedia: Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and …
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Image of Tori. Image credit: Library of Congress #LibraryOfCongress; #CCHCProject; #DigitalCollections; #Research Washington/CMED: Centered in Library of Congress (LoC) Labs, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) project, supported by …
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#NASA; #Astronomy; Washington/cmedia: The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations. The sunshield – about the …
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#ExtinguishFire; #Researchers; #Australia; #China With the realization that putting out the fire is time-consuming, manufacturers have been adding flame retardants to plastic, wood, and steel building materials for decades to …
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Image: Farmers, who gatherer flowers in the Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range in Brazil, enhance biodiversity and preserve traditional knowledge. Image credit: FAO/João Roberto Ripper The UN cultural agency commemorated on …
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