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Kentucky flooding death toll rises to 30 as governor says hundreds remain unaccounted for
CNN   01 August 2022   USA   Kentucky  
Debris surrounds a badly damaged home near Jackson, Kentucky, on July 31, 2022.
<p>Rescue workers searching for hundreds of missing people in flood-stricken Kentucky have been hampered by the devastation left behind -- unable to access areas left isolated after floodwater washed away bridges and inundated communities, with even more rainfall ...
Europe has descended into the age of fire
ArsTechnica   21 July 2022   Europe  
Enlarge / A firefighter stands by flames as a wildfire rages in the Monts d'Arree, near Brasparts, Brittany, on July 19, 2022.
<p>Europe is on fire: For days, temperatures have skyrocketed above 100&deg; Fahrenheit (38&deg; Celsius), shattering records and triggering huge wildfires that have forced tens of thousands from their homes. From Portugal to Spain to Greece, the flames have ...
The Earth Has a Pulse: 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity Discovered
Sci Tech Daily   21 June 2021   World  
<p>Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a &ldquo;pulse,&rdquo; according to a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers.<br />&ldquo;Many geologists believe that geological events are random ...
Move to net zero 'inevitably means more mining'
BBC NEWS   24 May 2021   World  
A key source of lithium are salts from South America's Atacama desert
<p>The public will need to accept greater mining activity if the world is to meet the challenge of going green.<br />Resource experts say the current supply of various metals and minerals cannot support a global economy producing net zero carbon emissions.<br ...
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Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art
WIRED   24 May 2021   Indonesia   Sulawesi island  
Photograph: Putu Artana/Alamy
<p>The limestone caves and rock shelters of Indonesia's southern Sulawesi island hold the oldest traces of human art and storytelling, dating back more than 40,000 years. Paintings adorn the walls of at least 300 sites in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep, ...
Climate change: A small green rock's warning about our future
BBC NEWS   28 April 2021   Antarctica  
An extraordinary journey: The atomic make-up of small crystals in the rock reveal its origin
<p>It's an unassuming rock, greenish in colour, and just over 4cm in its longest dimension. And yet this little piece of sandstone holds important clues to all our futures.<br />It was recovered from muds in the deep ocean, far off the coast of modern-day ...
Saving the planet from space: how satellite observation can help tackle climate change
EURACTIV   27 April 2021   World  
Free-Photos / Pixabay
<p>A defining moment in space exploration is the first image of Earthrise &ndash; watching the Earth come over the horizon &ndash; taken by an astronaut on Apollo 8 as it ventured on its historic trip to circle the moon.<br />Since that photo in December 1968, ...
Scientist: Kyoto's Earliest Cherry Blooms in 1,200 Years Point to Climate Change
Voa news   01 April 2021   Japan   Kyoto  
Cherry blossoms bloom March 31, 2021, in Tokyo.
<p>TOKYO - The famous pink cherry blossoms of Kyoto reached full bloom this year on March 26, the earliest date in the 12 centuries since records began, according to a Japanese university.<br />The earlier flowering indicates climate change, said Yasuyuki ...
The Greater Aletsch Glacier, a journey into the melting heart of the Alps
LIGEFATE   21 March 2021   Switzerland   Swiss Alps  
Aerial view of the Greater Aletsch Glacier as seen from the Konkordiahütte September 2019 © Kevin Kok.
<p>In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier &ndash; the largest in the European Alps &ndash; established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens to stop this and the nearby Fiescher Glacier ...
Largest survey on climate change reveals most people want action
Arab News   28 January 2021   World  
A herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP/File)
<p>NEW YORK: The world’s largest survey of opinions on climate change, which sought the views of 1.2 million people in 50 countries, found that the majority believe it is a global emergency that requires urgent action.<br>The poll, dubbed the “People’s Climate ...