Tag: Earth

  • Sun’s Magnetic Field to Flip

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    The peak of the sun’s solar cycle, which runs about 11-years long, is about to hit. That means that the sun’s magnetic field is about to flip, completely reversing its field in about three to four months. This solar event only happens once during the 11-year cycle, and it signals what solar physicists call the…

  • Global Shipping Lanes Being Developed in the Arctic

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    Thinning ice in the Arctic is making new shipping lanes possible. Olivier Dessibourg writes about a new breed of ice breaking vessels that can clear wider swathes of ice to boost the development of global shipping lanes in the Arctic. The article appeared in this month’s New Scientist on-line magazine. THE clank of hammers, the…

  • The Key to How Earth Will Respond to Greenhouse Gases is the Past

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    Richard Harris at NPR notes that the best way to predict how the earth will respond to all the carbon dioxide humans are putting into the atmosphere is to look at the past: About 10 million years after the dinosaurs died out, the Earth suffered another huge ecological shock: Carbon dioxide levels in the air…

  • Organic Farming Cont’d.

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    Here’s one more story and then I’ll let  it go for today.  This piece from PR Web relates a discussion held by impact investor and advocate of sustainable agriculture, Philippe van den Bossche, on the benefits of Mzee Benson Kinyua’s organic farming practices. According to a July 25, 2013 article published on People’s Daily Online, entitled, “Feeding Kenya…

  • Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills

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    Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers.  Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…

  • Meteor Viewing Best in August

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    Ellen Miller at the Science Recorder gives stargazers a heads up – the meteor viewing season has arrived: …Late July to early August [are] widely regarded as the best time to view meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. The peak viewing is in mid-August, but meteors can be observed up to that point with more regularity than during…

  • White Earth Reservation

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    Learning to Wildcraft: Foraging and Feasting on the White Earth Reservation BY: MARY ANNETTE PEMBER When I was a kid we described plants like burdock with its tenacious burrs and stinging nettles with its distinctive sting as “pickers.” At theWild Food Summit, however, they call these plants dinner. On the first night of the Wild…

  • NASA releases Saturn-Earth ‘photobomb’ pic

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    The US space agency has released a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, with Saturn’s rings in the shot. The color images were taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at a distance of nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, NASA said. After calling on Earthlings to wave at Cassini for…

  • Martian Atmosphere Destroyed Billions of Years Ago

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    CNN’s Elizabeth Landau highlights new findings by NASA’s Mars rover Curiousity: Two new studies in the journal Science this week suggest that the Martian atmosphere hasn’t changed much in terms of chemical composition in the past 4 billion years. It’s much thinner than our planet’s atmosphere, and the mix of ingredients isn’t friendly to living…

  • Blue Planet HD 189733b Rains Glass

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    NASA’s ever-peering eye into the heavens, the Hubble Space Telescope, has found a distant planet whose blue hue could be the result of glass rain. The planet, HD 189733b, is located 63 light-years away, and it wasn’t until recently, when the planet passed behind its host star, that scientists were able to surmise that the…