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How animals are impacted by climate

The co-producer of "Evolution Earth" spoke to Salon about covering nature in our climate change-ravaged world

Salon

First Thing: Appeals for body bags amid fears of epidemic after Libya floods

Up to 20,000 people feared dead after devastating floods. Plus, Mitt Romney attacks Trump in resignation announcement

The Guardian - UK

Are crows really that clever?

It’s no secret corvids are endowed with remarkable cognitive abilities.

The Conversation

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Deep and dangerous: Is AI the future of ocean exploration?

The Titan implosion has cast focus on autonomous, unmanned submersibles as the way to uncovering the ocean’s secrets.

Al Jazeera

Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate

Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say

The Guardian - UK

Healthy soil can help grow more food and cut emissions – but government inaction means too much soil is being degraded

The soil beneath our feet is a living entity. It is home to many microbes on Earth responsible for crucial processes such as decomposition and supporting plant health.

The Conversation

Morning Mail: Qantas and soft power influence, MPs’ plea to free Assange, Earth risks ‘heart attack’

Airline’s main regulators are also members of the airline’s Chairman’s Lounge; poll tracker shows no campaign ahead in all states

The Guardian - AU

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How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse

This year’s string of record-breaking disasters – from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to record-high ocean temperatures and record-low sea ice in Antarctica – seems like an acceleration of human-induced climate change.

The Conversation

Kent firefighters deployed in Morocco tell of ‘devastation’ following earthquake

Firefighters from Kent Fire and Rescue Service pulled a dog from the rubble on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Earth is outside its 'safe operating space for humanity' on most key measurements, study says

A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements

The Independent UK

Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find

First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged

The Guardian - UK

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Only three planetary boundaries are within a safe operating space — and even they are under extreme pressure

Salon

INCOIS to simulate earthquakes on either coast to test tsunami preparedness

INCOIS to simulate two earthquakes as part of 'IOWave23' exercise to test for tsunami disaster on east and west coasts. Pre-IOWave23 workshop on 'Tsunami Standard Operating Procedure' held to familiarise participants with tsunami bulletins, improve SOPs and promote emergency preparedness. 10,000 deaths in 2004 tsunami in Odisha, 381 villages vulnerable.…

The Hindu

'Invisible Beauty' offers a unique take on fashion through eyes of trailblazer Bethann Hardison

A new documentary out Friday, “Invisible Beauty,” offers a unique take on the fashion industry through the life and work of trailblazer Bethann Hardison

The Independent UK

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Newly discovered green comet Nishimura could be visible in Australian skies within days

Astronomer says the best way to spot it will be at sunrise and sunset away from light pollution, but warns comets are unpredictable

The Conversation

Flowering plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid – and may outlive us

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and the literal end of an era, the Mesozoic.

The Conversation

Possible hints of life found on distant planet – how excited should we be?

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the chemical markers that, on Earth, are associated with living organisms. But these are vague indications. So how likely is it that this exoplanet harbours alien life?

Inverse

Twinkling Stars Might Hold The Key To Finding Alien Intelligence

Interstellar twinkling could leave enough of an imprint on extraterrestrial narrowband signals to distinguish them from terrestrial radio emissions.

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The Conversation

Why the earth quakes – a closer look at what's going on under the ground

Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don’t bother anybody, so they don’t make the news. But every now and then a catastrophic earthquake hits people somewhere in the world with horrific destruction and immense suffering.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope Just Found Evidence Of An Alien World Covered By Water

A huge planet called K2-18b has methane and carbon dioxide mixed in with its mostly hydrogen atmosphere

The Hindu

Study traces Turkey quake to interrupted ‘chat’ between fault lines

A new paper in Science used kinematic slip inversion and fault-property modelling to find that the Turkey-Syria earthquake could be traced to a seismic cascade over the east and the north Anatolian fault lines, and that these lines had also been in constant dialogue through the exchange of stress.

The Conversation

Devastatingly low Antarctic sea ice may be the ‘new abnormal', study warns

For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction – something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are a crucial component of Earth’s climate processes.

Inverse

The Sun's Absurdly Hot "Crown" Holds One of the Biggest Mysteries in Astronomy

Scientists found an ongoing hum in the loops of the Sun's outermost layer, which could be related to other solar mysteries.

The Conversation

Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet. Are we, as a species, and as a planet, alone? Or is there life somewhere else?

Evening Standard

Molecule ‘that could hint at life’ and carbon dioxide found on exoplanet

The exoplanet K2-18 b – which is outside the solar system – is 8.6 times as massive as Earth

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