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Swimming In Ice Cubes
Air temperatures in the states and provinces around the Great Lakes suggest that meteorological summer has arrived. But the icy grip of winter is lingering in cool water temperatures and drifting chunks of ice. For nearly seven months, ice has been afloat somewhere on the Great Lakes, an ice season longer than anything in the […]
Climate Change and the Presidental Action Plan
The President’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution in America Reducing Carbon Pollution from Power Plants Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution. PROGRESS: In September 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed carbon pollution standards for new power […]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Government, Law, Politics
Tagged Clean Energy Infrastructure, climate change, coal power plants, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, The President's Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution in America
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Collapse Of West Antarctica
The collapse of the ice sheet in West Antarctica have raised concern about the rising sea level. “This is really happening,” Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA’s programs on polar ice, said. “There’s nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.” “Today we […]
Posted in Global Warming, International, Science
Tagged climate change, collapse, global warming, human induced climate change, ice sheet, ocean temperatures, retreat, sea level rising, warming, West Antarctica
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Self-healing Materials: Vascular Blood-like Plastic
Self-healing materials have been a breakthrough in this millennium. “Self-healing materials are a class of smart materials that have the structurally incorporated ability to repair damage caused by mechanical usage over time. The inspiration comes from biological systems, which have the ability to heal after being wounded. Initiation of cracks and other types of damage […]
Posted in Education, Science
Tagged cement, plastic, polymer automatically patches holes, Self-healing Materials, vascular
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Climate Disruption
The United States of America released a report on global warming and has named the problem climate disruption. The report +confirms that climate change is not a distant threat — it’s affecting us now.” Climate disruption is “expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond,” the National Climate Assessment […]
Posted in children, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Government, health and wellness, Science, weather
Tagged climate change, climate disruption, extreme weather events, report, scientists
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Record-Setting Rain
On April 29, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite observed the heavy rain that produced floods near Pensacola, Florida. The National Weather Service reported record-setting rainfall totals of more than 380 mm (15 inches) in Pensacola from the storm system that inundated the southeastern and eastern United States in recent days. This image shows […]
Posted in Global Warming, weather
Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, flooding, floods, rain, record
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Antimicrobial Resistance — a Serious Threat to Health
WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health New WHO report provides the most comprehensive picture of antibiotic resistance to date, with data from 114 countries A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) –its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally–reveals that this […]
Posted in health and wellness, International, Medicine, Science
Tagged antibiotic resistance, benefit, common infections, diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, health, killer, live healthier, live longer, modern medicine, pneumonia, urinary tract infections
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Planet Kepler in Habitable Zone
EARTH — NASA has discovered the first habitable planet: Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets […]
The Wife Of Jesus
A fragment of papyrus known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” caused a controversy when it was published by the Harvard Divinity School in 2012. Now, it has been tested and the study reports “the ink and papyrus are very likely ancient, and not a modern forgery.” The writing contains the phrases “Jesus said to […]