In September 2022, NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid called Dimorphos. The goal was simple in theory but huge in result. The idea is to test whether humans can “poke” space rocks to avoid future collisions. Scientists now claim the blow was even more historic than originally reported. The new measurements show … Read more
Sixteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over approval of BP’s new massive ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. In March, the administration approved a plan by BP to drill for oil even deeper than the Deepwater … Read more
Kagwell, Kenya — Rhoda Ongoche Akechi still remembers the whispers that followed her to the water in 2002. At 39 years old, the mother of seven was about to break one of Lake Victoria’s oldest taboos: women boarding fishing boats. The now 61-year-old said: “People were claiming that if a woman went into the water … Read more
Quantum computers, once thought to be decades away, are now much closer than expected thanks to the work of researchers at the California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich. Quantum computers are causing a huge stir in the scientific and technical community because they have the potential to outperform … Read more
Reduced food leads to stress, increased predation, decreased survival, and increased human-animal interactions Last summer, a bear in a tree panted in the hot afternoon sun as it searched for a little more shade in the backyard of a Durango home. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald) Durango has experienced above-average temperatures this winter, with record high temperatures … Read more
As Europe faces the reality of its dependence on fossil fuels, the war against Iran has unexpectedly ignited a race for renewable energy. advertisement advertisement Oil and gas prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks due to Iran’s stranglehold on the 39km-long Strait of Hormuz, which carries about 20% of the world’s oil supplies. Analysts … Read more
Forcing SST Traditional low-resolution sea surface temperature datasets cannot resolve local warming disparities in coastal areas, whereas kilometer-scale resolution data depict land-sea temperature gradients 4). Comparing with observations, we find that SST from BCC-CSM2-MR shows strong consistency with both reanalysis datasets and satellite assimilation data in capturing monthly variations in SST among several CMIP6 GCMs … 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