Tag: Earth

  • Earth’s temperature rising at rate of four Hiroshima bombs of heat every second.

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      India’s Zeenews reports an alarming new statistic: Melbourne: Earth’s temperature has been rising at the rate of four Hiroshima bombs of heat every second, says climate scientists. John Cook, Climate Communication Fellow from the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland , said that humans are emitting more carbon dioxide than ever into…

  • Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere

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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere four billion years ago – more than a billion years before Earth, according to a study of rock samples. NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover Photo: REUTERS By Nick Collins, and Agencies Rocks collected by Nasa’s Spirit rover from the surface of the Gusev crater were found to contain five times as much nickel as…

  • This Sunday – the Supermoon

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    The full moon that will rise Sunday will be the largest of the year, a “supermoon” caused by the slightly asymmetrical orbit of the moon around Earth. Sunday’s supermoon will reach its peak fullness at 7:32 a.m. EDT. The moon’s closest approach of 2013 will be about 221,300 miles (357,000 km) from Earth, about 20 minutes…

  • Future Earth established to discover why the global environment is changing

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    Global sustainability research programme Future Earth has announced its inaugural science committee, with Institute of Development Studies Professorial Fellow Melissa Leach serving as vice chair.   Future Earth was launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The 18-member science committee – the first Future Earth governance body to be appointed – will…

  • Send Your Message into Deep Space

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    By Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com A group of scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs are tired of waiting around for E.T. to get in touch. Instead of passively listening for signs of intelligent life in the universe, the Lone Signal project is asking everyone with an Internet connection to help beam messages into outer space in an attempt to make our presence…

  • What causes the tides?

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    By: Marcus Goodkind Gravity and inertia are the major forces responsible for creating tides. The moon’s gravity and proximity to the earth pulls water toward it. The moon’s gravity causes a “bulge” in the oceans facing it. Inertia (a body in motion tends to remain in motion), acts to counterbalance the moon’s effect and causes…

  • World’s on planet earth we are just beginning to discover

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    Joseph Russell / University of Delaware By Douglas Main LiveScience Beneath the seafloor lives a vast and diverse array of microbes, chomping on carbon that constantly rains down from above and is continually buried by a never-ending downpour of debris — some whale dung here, some dead plankton there. For the first time, a study…

  • 97% of Scientific Community Agree – Humans Causing Global Warming

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    Scientists agree on a warming Earth 08 June 2013 Issue No:275 University World News Researchers in America, Australia, Britain and Canada found an overwhelming consensus among scientists regarding human-induced global warming after examining the abstracts of 12,000 papers dealing with climate from 1991 to 2011. They say the number of papers rejecting the consensus was…

  • NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

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    More than 250 scientists, engineers, and flight personnel are participating in the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) campaign. The project is sponsored by the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Toon of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences…

  • How does world’s oldest water taste? ‘Terrible.’

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    Earth Science Professor, Barbara Sherwood Lollar describes the oldest water ever discovered ( possibly as old as 2.6 billion years, when Earth was less than half its current age) in a recent interview with Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times: “What jumps out at you first is the saltiness. Because of the reactions between the water and the…