The world’s largest dinosaur has been discovered. The creature Argentina lived about 77 million years ago. Though it is huge, about two stories high, it is believed to have been an immature specimen still in it’s growth stage. “We thought it was time a plant-eating dinosaur got a badass name,” said Matt Lamanna, Carnegie Museum […]
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Colorado River Running Dry
NASA reports: A new study by scientists from NASA and the University of California, Irvine, has found that over 75 percent of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western […]
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Tagged California, climate change, Colorado River, drought
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Climate-related Health Risks
The World Health Organization calls for stronger action on climate-related health risks: “The evidence is overwhelming: climate change endangers human health,” says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. “Solutions exist and we need to act decisively to change this trajectory.” Previously unrecognized health benefits could be realized from fast action to reduce climate change and its […]
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Tagged children, climate change, diseases, extreme weather, extreme weather events, food insecurity, global warming, health risks, impact of heat, infectious disease
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Ebola Virus Disease
The World Health Organization (WHO) believes the ebola outbreak is more severe than first thought. Because of fear and lack of education, many cases are going unreported. Ebola has a high instance of death due to bleeding from orifices. “Ebola virus disease is a severe, often fatal illness and one of the world’s most virulent […]
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Tagged Africa, disease, ebola, virus
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Written In Stone
In the early 1950’s a Canadian wrote a four-letter word in stone: Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word. […]
Strange July Weather
NASA reports that North America weather patterns for July 2014 were upside down: If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few weeks have been strange. In places where it should be seasonably hot—the eastern and southern United States and western Europe—it’s just been warm. In places where weather is usually mild in the […]
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Tagged climage change, extreme weather events, global warming, jet stream, ocean temperatures, precipitation, winds
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The Naked Truth
If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. — author unknown
Research
Research, n: Consider Columbus: He didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. When he got back he didn’t know where he had been. And he did it all on someone else’s money.
Decorous Age
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consequences Of Climate Change
NASA scientists warn: Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, global warming
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