Tag Archives: Land

There’s nothing we can do to stop the impending effects of climate change, says new study: Technology News, Firstpost

[ad_1] France Media Agency13 November 2020 10:54:41 Even if humanity stops emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, the Earth will warm up for centuries to come and oceans will rise by meters, according to a controversial modeling study released Thursday. The natural factors of global warming – more heat-trapping clouds, permafrost thawing …

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Two months after Ricardo Ciciliano’s death, his son is born

[ad_1] Almost two months after Ricardo Ciciliano’s death – September 17 -, he was born Massimo Alessandro Ciciliano Herrera, the last of six children left by the former Soledad player, who managed to choose his name. His wife paid tribute to the former flyer of Millonarios, Junior and Uniautónoma FC, …

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The solar system was formed in less than 200,000 years

[ad_1] The artistic conception of the dust and gas surrounding a newly formed planetary system. Image courtesy of NASA. A long time ago – about 4.5 billion years – our sun and our solar system formed in the short span of 200,000 years. This is the conclusion of a group …

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Space dust weighing with radar

[ad_1] Over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust are thought to fall on Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass close to Earth. Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each …

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A UH researcher solves the mystery of glacial floods

[ad_1] University of Hawaiʻi Aerial image of subsidence and crevasses on the Vatnajókull ice sheet on the western Skaftákatlar subglacial lake. (Photo credit: Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office) A long-standing mystery involving floods or “jökulhlaup” emerging suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps was fortuitously solved by a …

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If you can’t wait to find aliens, this is great news: BGR

[ad_1] A new study suggests habitable exoplanets may be abundant in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The researchers processed data on thousands of exoplanets discovered using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. Unfortunately, while future advances in telescope technology may allow us to pinpoint habitable worlds, we probably won’t be able …

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