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
September Heat Sets ‘ Mind-Blowing ’ Global Temperature Record
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After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday.
Last month’s average temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average for September. That’s the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buon...
Source: TIME: Science - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
What an Owl Taught Me About Life
Five years ago someone found a baby owl, near-death, on their lawn. The wildlife rehabber who stabilized her consulted with me because of my experience with owls and hawks. Eventually my wife and I undertook the task of conditioning “Alfie” for a soft release; waiting out a developmental delay (most of her flight feathers came abnormally late that first summer), then flight training and hunting training. Alfie disappeared for a week. Then she chose to return, centering her territory on our backyard. I put a nest box on my writing studio.
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Alfie’s first free-...
Source: TIME: Science - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Carl Safina Tags: Uncategorized climate change freelance Source Type: news
Amphibians Are The World ’ s Most Vulnerable Species And Threats Are Increasing
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble.
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A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with extinction, meaning they are either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. That’s up from 39% reported in the last assessment, in 2004.
“Amphibians are the world’s most threatened animals,” said Duke University’s Junjie Yao, a frog researcher who was not involved in the study. “Their unique biology and permeable skin make the...
Source: TIME: Science - October 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Christina Larson / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Swedish Academy Confirms Chemistry Nobel Winners After Leak
The laureates of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry have been officially announced, hours after their names were leaked in what appeared to be an inadvertently sent email.
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The winners, for achievements in the field of nanotechnology, are Moungi G. Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis E. Brus from Columbia University and Alexei I. Ekimov formerly from research company Nanocrystals Technology Inc., according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The three will share the 11 million-krona ($1 million) award, the academy said.
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Source: TIME: Science - October 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Kati Pohjanpalo and Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized Chemistry Source Type: news
Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Scientists for Work on Electrons
(STOCKHOLM) — The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds.
Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany; and Anne L’Huillier of Lund University in Sweden won the award.
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Hans Ellegren, the secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the prize Tuesday in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish k...
Source: TIME: Science - October 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Keyton and Mike Corder / AP Tags: Uncategorized Into the Metaverse wire Source Type: news
The Cities With the Fastest and Slowest Traffic in the World
A nine-mile trip from the airport in Dhaka, the bustling capital of Bangladesh, to Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park, near downtown, can take as long as 55 minutes, according to Google Maps.
A trip of the same distance in Flint, Michigan, from the airport to the Sloan Museum of Discovery, takes about nine minutes.
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While we might expect a slower drive in a metropolitan area of 20 million vs. a regional city of just 400,000, the difference in travel time isn’t due just to traffic or congestion, according to a new study that measures traffic speed around the world. Even a...
Source: TIME: Science - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Staley Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
It ’ s Time to Marvel at the Fourth and Final Supermoon of 2023
Few people take the time to give thanks to American astrologer Richard Noelle. Astrology as a whole may not have contributed much to the advancement of science, but that doesn’t mean that an astrologer’s ideas can’t have a very big impact. In 1979, Noelle had a good idea indeed, when he coined the now-ubiquitous term “supermoon.”
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Prior to Noelle’s brainstorm, the common descriptor for a full moon that occurs at the low point, or perigee, in its orbit around the Earth was a “perigean full moon,” a turgid bit of phrasing not remo...
Source: TIME: Science - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
‘It’s Wrong!’: Top Chinese Scientist Says India’s Moon Landing Not Even Close to South Pole
The rivalry between Asia’s two biggest countries has extended into outer space.
After India’s landing of its Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon last month—becoming the first country to put a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and breaking China’s record for the southernmost lunar landing—a top Chinese scientist has said claims about the accomplishment are overstated.
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Read More: How India Became First to Reach the Moon’s South Pole
Ouyang Ziyuan, lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration program, told the Chinese-language...
Source: TIME: Science - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
’It’s Wrong!’: Top Chinese Scientist Says India’s Moon Landing Not Even Close to South Pole
The rivalry between Asia’s two biggest countries has extended into outer space.
After India’s landing of its Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon last month—becoming the first country to put a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and breaking China’s record for the southernmost lunar landing—a top Chinese scientist has said claims about the accomplishment are overstated.
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Read More: How India Became First to Reach the Moon’s South Pole
Ouyang Ziyuan, lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration program, told the Chinese-language...
Source: TIME: Science - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Iran Says It Successfully Launched an Imaging Satellite Into Orbit
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Iran claimed on Wednesday that it successfully launched an imaging satellite into space, a move that could further ratchet up tensions with Western nations that fear its space technology could be used to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran’s Communication Minister Isa Zarepour said the Noor-3 satellite had been put in an orbit 450 kilometers (280 miles) above the Earth’s surface, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. It was not clear when exactly the launch took place.
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There was no immediate acknowledgment from Western offici...
Source: TIME: Science - September 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
How NASA Captured a Piece of the Solar System ’ s Past From an Ancient Asteroid
Infrared sensors on the ground detected the heat signature of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample-return capsule when it slammed into the atmosphere at more than 45,000 km/h (27,650 mph), at 8:42 a.m. MDT today. The 46 kg (101 lbs.) capsule was dropped off by its much larger OSIRIS-REx mother ship as that spacecraft went whizzing briefly by Earth. The capsule hit the air off the coast of California, aiming for a parachute landing in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City. Even before the capsule landed, four search helicopters scrambled to meet it, and the people at ...
Source: TIME: Science - September 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Our Vocabulary Is Adapting to a Hotter Planet
Discussions of climate change began even before Broecker’s paper, without any of the white-hot rhetoric that has characterized much of our approach to the issue since. In 1973, a team of environmental scientists published a paper in MIT Press under the title “Study of Man’s Impact on Climate.” They labeled that impact “inadvertent climate modification.” The phrasing, while accurate enough, never caught on. NexisLexis counts just 11 uses of the term from 1968 to 2023, with the earliest occurring on Feb. 9, 1988, on a PBS program about math and science education.
“The first test w...
Source: TIME: Science - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Some Politicians Want to Research Geoengineering as a Climate Solution. Scientists Are Worried
Stratospheric aerosol injection, the idea of spraying sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet, is one of the most controversial topics in climate science, with scientists engaged in a fierce, yearslong debate over whether even researching such techniques poses unacceptable risks. To some people outside of that community, though, it no longer matters much what the academics think. “Can we just disagree and move on?” Andrew Song, the co-founder of controversial geoengineering startup Make Sunsets, said in February, as he and his business partner Luke Iseman drove to the Reno, Nev., site of the...
Source: TIME: Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza and Justin Worland Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How NASA Got a ‘ UFO Czar ’ —And Why it Matters
The real czars may be long gone, but for decades, the White House has been doing a good job of keeping the role—or at least the honorific—alive, appointing a director to oversee a particular task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it. We’ve had the Ebola Czar, the Drug Czar, the Budget Czar, the Climate Czar, and more. Yesterday, at a press conference at NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, the space agency gave the old role a new look, appointing the country’s, and indeed the world’s, first-ever UFO Czar. Only NASA didn’t use either one of those terms.
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Source: TIME: Science - September 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
