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Did This Year Move the Needle on Climate Change?

Climate action was needed more than ever in 2022. Here’s what changed—and what didn’t.

Foreign Policy

How to prepare your home for an earthquake (and get help paying for retrofits)

Some of the most vulnerable Californians can receive thousands of dollars from the state to better protect their homes.

Tribune News Service

As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin

Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what might be the closest thing on Earth to the feel of Martian soil.

Los Angeles Times

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Dr Matt Agnew Has Dropped A Book All About Space It Shits On Your Year 9 Science Classes

“Everyone is smart enough to enjoy science.”

Pedestrian.tv

Winter solstice 2023: When is the shortest day of the year?

Everything you need too know about winter solstice 2023, from facts about the shortest day to how it’s celebrated.

The Independent UK

California quake occurred in very seismically active region

The big earthquake that rocked the far north coast of California this week originated in an area under the Pacific Ocean where multiple tectonic plates collide, creating the state's most seismically active region

The Independent UK

NASA formally retires Mars InSight lander after 4-year mission

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the U.S. space agency announced on Wednesday.

Reuters

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AP PHOTOS: Aviator races to photograph all glaciers

Garrett Fisher is traveling the world in his tiny blue-white “Super Cub” aircraft, on a quest to document every remaining glacier on Earth.

The Independent UK

Biology textbooks aren't keeping up

Climate change is a major threat to life on Earth — but not a major focus of biology textbooks

Salon

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ‘luckiest guys on Earth’ after Wrexham honour

The pair’s takeover of the National League side in February 2021 created headlines worldwide.

The Independent UK

Yards from passing commuters in our city - in one of the richest countries on earth - another homeless man dies

"In this day and age for people to be sleeping rough on our streets is just unacceptable"

Manchester Evening News

Strictly’s Helen Skelton 'back to earth with a bang' as she reunites with kids

Helen Skelton made it all the way to the Strictly Come Dancing final

Leeds Live

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

The Conversation

Are we too primitive for aliens?

We think we're an advanced species — but perhaps we're babies compared to our alien peers, a new paper argues

Salon

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Pedestrian.tv

A Fossil Proves Dinosaurs Ate Mammals Suddenly I’m Glad Jurassic Park Isn’t A Documentary

Sorry to those Cretaceous mammals I guess.

Edinburgh Live

Winter Solstice explained as rare Christmas shooting stars to zip through skies on longest night

The shortest day and longest night of the year is here, marking the start of winter. Despite the freezing conditions recently, the season is only just getting started, with a meteor shower set to light up the sky above Edinburgh tonight.

The New Daily

Warmer weather, less rain on the way as La Niña wanes

La Niña will continue into summer, but there are signs of it “declining in strength” according to an update from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Glasgow Live

What is the Winter solstice as shortest day marked with rare Christmas shooting star

December 21 marks the shortest, and longest, day of the year. And it doesn't stop there as there's a chance to see the Ursid meteor shower - a celestial display which could see up to 10 meteors an hour.

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Birmingham Post

Virgin Orbit finally granted licence for delayed UK space launch from Cornwall

The launch was due to happen in December but will now take place after Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi review – a great mystery in the picture

Why did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer

Tribune News Service

6.4 magnitude earthquake causes injuries, damage, power outages on Northern California coast

FERNDALE, Calif. — A large earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted the Northern California coastline near Eureka on Tuesday morning, causing violent shaking that pushed some homes from their foundations and power outages affecting tens of thousands of people.

The Conversation

COP15's Global Biodiversity Framework must advance Indigenous-led conservation to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Conversation

Five ways you can help stop biodiversity loss in your area – and around the world

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow our food, cleanse our air and water and regulate our climate. Human life cannot exist without it. But around one million animal and plant species are now threatened by extinction.

LiveScience

Winter solstice 2024: When does winter start?

When does winter start in 2024? Here's the science of the winter solstice, and why its the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Los Angeles Times

Five winter solstice practices that honor the dark time of year — and Earth's rhythms

LOS ANGELES — Once again we have entered the time of the winter solstice — when daylight is scarce and the creeping darkness seems to whisper: Slow down. Turn inward. Fortify yourself against the long, cold night ahead.

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