Warming far outpacing climate action, as UN negotiators meet in Bonn - eco
The opening of the United Nation’s annual mid-year climate conference in Bonn Germany offered up dramatically contrasting messages this week: national leaders and political negotiators congratulated themselves, proudly celebrating the “historic Paris Agreement,” while environmentalists warned somberly that the Earth is far worse off than most people realise, with the political will for climate action still falling far behind the fearfully rapid pace of warming. The conference opening coincided ..>> view originalMassive Totten Glacier Melting Alarms Scientists: Antarctic Ocean Feared To Raise Sea Levels
Update Date: May 20, 2016 06:00 AM EDT People hike on the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, on November 30, 2015 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The Southern Patagonian Ice Field is the third largest ice field in the world. The majority of the almost 50 large glaciers in Los Glaciares National Park have been retreating during the past fifty years due to warming temperatures, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The U..>> view originalThis new-found asteroid impact may have been deadlier than what killed the dinosaurs
Scientists have uncovered evidence in Australia of a gigantic asteroid that crashed into Earth billions of years ago, and say the impact could have been even more devastating than the collision that's thought to have contributed to the decline of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Researchers have discovered tiny glass beads called spherules buried deep under the ground in Western Australia, which are thought to be the remnants of vaporised material from when a colossal asteroid smashed i..>> view originalHypersonic Jet Can Fly From Sydney To London In Less Than Two Hours
Scientists in Australia have successfully tested a new type of jet aircraft capable of reaching speeds of more than seven times the speed of sound, bringing the possibility of hypersonic travel one step closer to reality. For a rocket or jet to be considered hypersonic, it has to be able to reach Mach 5, or at least five times the speed of sound. The new aircraft, known as the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) 5B, not only broke through the Mach 5 mark, but easil..>> view originalThe synthetic human genome could be around the corner
In biology, more than any other science, there is quite a lot of restraint. Whether it’s a banned, deadly super-virus or a taboo experiment with a human embryo, there are countless avenues of biology that can be pursued, but which shouldn’t be. Just where the line lies, separating the “weird-but-necessary” experiments from the “hold-on-there-Mengele” experiments, is a constant debate. We’ve seen controversial proposals for cloned human beings and three-parent children, mostly in pursuit of fixi..>> view originalClimate change effects shown in NASA images highlight drastic impact
AU TAS: Biodiversity Saves Fish From Climate Change: Study May 172:33Biodiversity is a key factor in protecting fish from the effects of climate change, according to scientists who observed that communities with more fish species are more resilient to rising temperatures and temperature swings. A team of scientists led by the Smithsonian?s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and the University of Tasmania conducted underwater censuses of over 3,000 fish species in 44 countries around th..>> view originalNASA hails launch of super pressure balloon
NASA has successfully launched a super pressure balloon from New Zealand – an important step in scientific investigations of the near-space environment. The launch earlier this week was the fifth attempt to get the balloon in the air. Previous bids had been hampered by bad weather, according to NASA. The balloon will float at an altitude of 33.5 kilometres and will remain airborne for more than 100 days. At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of ..>> view originalDiscovery of frozen comets around sun-like star may reveal Solar System's origins
Scientists may finally learn something about our Solar System’s origins after they discovered frozen comets orbiting a sun-like star (HD 181327). University of Cambridge researchers used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and detected extremely low levels of carbon monoxide around the star. The carbon monoxide levels are surprisingly similar to the amounts around comets in our solar system. The scientists believe that the findings of this study, about to be published in Monthly..>> view original
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