Hottest October On Record Makes It Almost Certain 2023 Will Be Hottest Year Ever
This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.
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October was a whopping 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous record for the month in 2019, surprising even Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European climate agency that routinely publishes monthly bulletins observing global surface ...
Source: TIME: Science - November 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: MELINA WALLING / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Cheetahs Are Shifting Their Hunting to Night to Avoid Hotter Weather
Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds.
Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that sets them up for more potential conflicts with mostly nocturnal competing predators such as lions and leopards, say the authors of research published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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“Changing temperatures can impact the behavior patterns of large carnivore species and also the dynamics among species,” said University of Washington bio...
Source: TIME: Science - November 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: CHRISTINA LARSON / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Who Helped Save Apollo 13 Crew, Dies at 87
LOS ANGELES — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87.
“We lost one of our country’s heroes on Oct. 31,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
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Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II “was key to the success of our Apollo Program, and his shining personality will ensure he is remembered throughout history,” Nelson said. NASA didn’t mention where or how Mattingly died. However, The N...
Source: TIME: Science - November 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: ROBERT JABLON / AP Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
The Biggest Myths About Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom
My closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours fostering an orphaned baby owl monkey in the Peruvian Amazon in 2009. According to Charles Darwin, my maternal drive should have transformed me into an intuitively wise and selfless nurse. But the truth was I felt quite traumatized—fretful, exhausted, and for the sake of my defiled and defecated hair alone (the baby was happiest when clinging to my head), uninclined to repeat the ordeal ever again. I was 39 at the time and wrestling with whether I should be having children myself. My night with the owl monkey reinforced my suspicion that I was not cut out for m...
Source: TIME: Science - November 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lucy Cooke Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
We Need Geoengineering to Stop Out of Control Warming, Warns Climate Scientist James Hansen
James Hansen first warned Congress of the threat from climate change in 1988. Today, in a controversial new peer-reviewed paper published in Oxford Open Climate Change, he brings a new warning: Scientists are underestimating how fast the planet is warming. And the crisis will have to be met, in part, with geoengineering.
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According to the report, earth will pass 1.5°C of cumulative warming this decade, and exceed 2°C of warming before 2050. Scientists think that warming in excess of 2°C could unleash more dangerous effects, like the collapse of Antarctic ice sheet...
Source: TIME: Science - November 2, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized climate change embargoed study healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Earth Will Lock in 1.5 °C of Warming By 2029 At Current Rate of Burning Fossil Fuels
In a little more than five years – sometime in early 2029 – the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate, a new study says.
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The study moves three years closer the date when the world will eventually hit a critical climate threshold, which is an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1800s.
Beyond that temperature increase, the risks of catastrophes increase, as the world will likely lose most of its coral reefs, ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Key Part of Antarctica Doomed to ‘ Unavoidable ’ Melting No Matter The Scale of Climate Action
No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study found.
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Though the full melt will take hundreds of years, slowly adding nearly 6 feet (1.8 meters) to sea levels, it will be enough to reshape where and how people live in the future, the study’s lead author said.
Researchers used computer simulations to calculate future melting of protective ice shelves jutting over Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea in western Antarctica. The study in Monday’s j...
Source: TIME: Science - October 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Artificially Cooling Rivers Could Protect Fish From Climate Change
In the midst of a heat wave in Nova Scotia, Canada, this July, humans sought out air conditioning and shelter in the shade. Fish in the Wrights River, meanwhile, converged on what patches of deeper, cooler water they could find, like holes in the streambed out of the sun’s glare. One of those areas of relief, though, hadn’t occurred naturally. It had been created by humans pumping cold water from a nearby well into the overheated stream. Cold-loving fish, like Atlantic salmon, flocked to this stretch of water in droves.
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Researchers had devised the setup as part ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Pig-Heart Transplant Recipient Is Doing Well After a Month
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig—and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.
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Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.
In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to push through a peda...
Source: TIME: Science - October 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: LAURAN NEERGAARD / AP Tags: Uncategorized Innovation wire Source Type: news
Hurricanes Are Twice As Likely to Get Rapidly Stronger Than Decades Ago
With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday.
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Last month Hurricane Lee went from barely a hurricane at 80 mph (129 kph) to the most powerful Category 5 hurricane with 155 mph (249 kph) winds in 24 hours. In 2017, before it devastated Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria went from a Category 1 storm with 90 mph (145 kph) to a top-of-the-chart whopper with 160 mph (257 kph) winds in just 15 hours.
The study looked at 830 Atlanti...
Source: TIME: Science - October 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
NASA Launches First of Its Kind Mission to a Mysterious and Rare Metal Asteroid
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(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid.
Most asteroids tend to be rocky or icy, and this is the first exploration of a metal world. Scientists believe it may be the battered remains of an early planet’s core, and could shed light on the inaccessible centers of Earth and other rocky planets.
SpaceX launched the spacecraft into an overcast midmorning sky from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Named for the asteroid it’s chasing, Psyche should reach the huge, po...
Source: TIME: Science - October 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: MARCIA DUNN / AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
How to See This Year ’ s Rare ‘ Ring of Fire ’ Solar Eclipse
From the Pacific Northwest through the Southwest, people in the U.S. will be able to view a celestial spectacle on Saturday night, when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, obscuring the sun’s light, bringing forth this year’s solar eclipse.
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The 2023 eclipse is an annular solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon is farthest away from the Earth. That distance means it won’t be a total eclipse because the moon will not block out all of the sun’s light. Instead a “ring of fire” will be created in the sky when the eclipse reaches ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Solcyre Burga Tags: Uncategorized General Assignment healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Trillions of Tons of Antarctic Ice Have Been Lost, Scientists Find
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial “gatekeepers’’ between the frozen continent’s massive glaciers and open ocean.
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Of the continent’s 162 ice shelves, 68 show significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021, while 29 grew, 62 didn’t change and three lost mass but not in a way scientists can say shows a significant trend, according to a study in Thursday’s Science Advances.
That melted ...
Source: TIME: Science - October 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Water and Carbon Revealed in NASA ’ s Ancient Asteroid Samples
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(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — the most ever returned to Earth.
Scientists and space agency leaders took part in the reveal at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The ancient black dust and chunks are from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu, almost 60 million miles away. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected the samples three years ago and then dropped them off sealed in a capsule during a flyby of Earth last month.
Scientists anticipated at least a cupful of r...
Source: TIME: Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: MARCIA DUNN / AP Tags: Uncategorized Space Source Type: news
Whales and Dolphins in U.S. Waters Are Losing Food and Habitat to Climate Change
This study provides guidance on how managers could prioritize species that are most vulnerable to climate effects and give these species the attention that they need,” Brogan said. “If we are going to preserve biodiversity, including marine mammals, ocean managers need to explicitly account for current and future changes in the ocean as they consider ways to conserve marine life.” (Source: TIME: Science)
Source: TIME: Science - October 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: PATRICK WHITTLE / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
