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Venice may be forced to relocate in the future as scientists scramble to save it from the growing threat of flooding. advertisement advertisement A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports assessed existing and potential adaptation strategies in Italian cities to sea level rise projections from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Read more
IIn his home on a steep hillside in Medellin’s Golondrinas neighborhood, Robinson Velázquez Cartagena stands proudly next to two large water tanks, a rainwater harvesting system he designed and built to reduce the risk of flooding and landslides. This is one of the nature-based solutions that Velázquez and others in the community have proposed as … Read more
The Giant Magellan Telescope project has been in the works for a critical 12-24 months, with final design stages underway as the team behind the project seeks further funding to make their dream of a 25.4-meter (83-foot) multi-mirror telescope a reality. of giant magellan telescope (GMT) A consortium of 16 universities and research institutes held … Read more
LONGMEADOW — Signs encouraging participation in citizen science are posted on wooden posts along the path at the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge. Take a photo of the field with your smartphone from the smartphone holder on the post. Email the photo to the provided email address and voila! — Added a bit of data … Read more
HELSINKI — China has conducted rendezvous and close operational tests involving a prototype cargo spacecraft and a satellite, a step toward low-cost orbital infrastructure. The Qingzhou prototype spacecraft was launched on March 30th on CAS Space’s first Kinetica-2 kerosene liquid oxygen rocket and successfully entered orbit carrying two small companion satellites. The Qingzhou prototype spacecraft, … Read more
After losing 43,000 acres of forest in Sussex County in less than 25 years, Sussex County Council has begun the process of enacting regulations to limit the removal of trees for new housing development. But as the proposal was outlined at the April 14 meeting, Councilwoman Jane Gruenebaum said the planned changes may not go … Read more
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Something strange is swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until 10 years ago, ice floes radiating from the continent continued to expand, even though climate change was already in full swing. Then in 2016, as rising global temperatures appeared to catch up with Antarctica, it suddenly shrunk dramatically, but it has yet … Read more
The high-pitched chirping of cicadas echoes through the heavy air, and the forest behind us shimmers in the midday heat. The black-bellied dove, invisible in the tree canopy, urges me to work harder, work harder, work harder, but my wet shirt and red skin insist that I already am. The pigeons won and I continued … Read more
Among the more than 4,500 known planetary host stars, one surprising pattern stands out. Planets are expected to form around most stars, and many stars exist in pairs, but worlds orbiting both stars are extremely rare. Of the more than 6,000 exoplanets, or exoplanets, discovered to date (mostly by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and the … Read more