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Cool web-based tool to explore climate history (climatearchive.org)
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This is a great way to travel through space and time, and get to know our planet better in a fun and beautifully designed way.

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Streams connected to groundwater show improved detoxification and microbial diversity (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Vietnam's 'rice bowl' cracks in monster heat wave (phys.org)
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The importance of critical minerals should not condone their extraction at all costs, says researcher (phys.org)
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Where does lightning strike? New maps pinpoint 36.8 million yearly ground strike points in unprecedented detail (phys.org)
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The Amazon has a 286% increase in fires in February (brazil.postsen.com)
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European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies in preceding years (wcd.copernicus.org)
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Clouds Vanish During a Solar Eclipse, And We Finally Know Why (www.sciencealert.com)
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New discovery suggests significant glacial retreat in West Antarctica began in 1940s (phys.org)
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Thawing Arctic permafrost could release radioactive, cancer-causing radon (www.livescience.com)
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What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet (www.newyorker.com)
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Downward migrating microplastics in lake sediments are a tricky indicator for the onset of the Anthropocene (www.science.org)
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Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)
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Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
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The Six-Billion-Year Story Of How Earth Got Uranium (medium.com)
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Hiroshima fallout debris resembles first solar system condensates (phys.org)
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Switzerland proposes an UN expert group on solar geoengineering (www.climatechangenews.com)
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sounds like a bad idea 👀

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Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973 - Nature (www.nature.com)
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Iceland's Recent Volcanic Eruptions Are Unleashing Deep Secrets (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Earth’s early evolution: fresh insights from rocks formed 3.5 billion years ago (theconversation.com)
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The only class that can lead the green transition is our own (www.cpusa.org)
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1864045

Things seem dire...

We must act now and do actual activism, imho.

Not just "educate" people on these issues.

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GPlates: Manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleogeographic features through geological time. (www.gplates.org)
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breaking news: light pollution is purgatory for bugs (www.nature.com)
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breaking news: light pollution sends bugs to hell

Preexisting research into bugs circling lights was mainly to see what properties of the lights attracted the bugs, which is how we know that certain LED lights can prevent the bugs from flying towards it.

This study, however, showed that the bugs aren't trying to get to the light at all. The light triggers their dorsal reflex, causing them to recalibrate their sense of direction to keep the light at a fixed angle from their perspective. The bugs think they are going in a straight line, forever, and they never get to where they are going.

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Huge deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep in Albanian mine (www.newscientist.com)
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Weather tracker: Flash flooding in Oman and record temperatures in Western Australia (www.theguardian.com)
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