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Tonga's volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth

"We've never seen anything like it," said atmospheric scientist Luis Millán, who works at NASA. The vapor sent skyward by the eruption will likely stay in the stratosphere for years.

WEKU

McKinney fire has hit the stratosphere, spewing the 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds'

LOS ANGELES — A fire big enough to make its own lightning used to be as rare as it sounds.

Los Angeles Times

Urgent warning as solar storm from hole in sun could hit Earth today wreaking havoc on power grids

Solar storms at their strongest can cause widespread blackouts and major electrical problems as electricity grids collapse and satellite navigation goes down

Irish Mirror

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Solar storm hits Earth today after hole opens in the Sun

High-speed geomagnetic winds could cause power grid failures, disrupt satellites and disrupt the migrations of animals

Wales Online

Earth is spinning faster than usual, but why? What experts say after shortest day ever

Time is flying. Literally.

Tribune News Service

SpaceX capsule confirmed as source of space debris that crashed on farm in Australia

Astrophysicist expects people will find more debris in the area ‘over the coming weeks to months to even years’

The Guardian - AU

Space debris is coming down more frequently. What are the chances it could hit someone or damage property?

In the past week alone, we’ve seen two separate incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth in unexpected places.

The Conversation

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"All life on earth remains in peril": declaration that put Newcastle on the global map

"All life on earth remains in peril". So said the introduction to the 1997 "Newcastle Declaration" - a groundbreaking document that committed cities and towns across the planet to taking local actions to create a sustainable future.

Newcastle Herald

Four 'malicious' alien civilisations may live inside our Milky Way

A new paper on life outside our planet calculated that a handful of evil aliens could potentially invade us - although it found the chances of it happening are "very low"

Daily Mirror

‘Prey’ star Amber Midthunder says the new ‘Predator’ prequel is groundbreaking for Indigenous representation

The new “Predator” prequel is set 300 years ago, but star Amber Midthunder believes the film makes present-day history.

Tribune News Service

Curious Kids: is it possible to see what is happening in distant solar systems now?

If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India

The Conversation

Earthquake strikes in rural Stirlingshire village

An earthquake struck in one rural village at the weekend. According to the British Geological Survey’s Earthquake Seismology Team, the earthquake was recorded at one of its sensor locations – on the A85, north of Lochearnhead. The tremble was recor

Daily Record

Single mum saves over €21,500 with help of bank analysing apps

"I spent €2,990 on Amazon in one year. I thought this was disgraceful - how on earth have I spent that much?"

Dublin Live

The world is ablaze and the oil industry just posted record profits. It’s us or them

No single crisis, no matter how existential, will be enough to shut this machine down naturally. We must break it or it will break us

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Cricket must rethink sponsorship deals amid ongoing climate crisis

The MCC says the climate crisis poses ‘an existential risk’ to cricket – so questions must be asked of many partnerships

ABC News

Earth recorded its shortest day on record recently. And that could affect our clocks

Earth's rotation has started speeding up, so timekeepers may need to delete a second to keep our clocks synchronised. So, how will that affect us?

The Conversation

Explorers just uncovered Australia’s deepest cave. A hydrogeologist explains how they form

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee–Florentine karst area. Its depth just beat out its predecessor, the Niggly Cave, by about…

The National (Scotland)

AIG Women’s Open is a momentous moment on Muirfield’s journey - Nick Rodger

APPARENTLY, the earth is now spinning faster than ever. This clump of space rock that we exist on completed a full rotation in a time that was 1.59…

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Chinese rocket re-entry: suspected debris lands in Malaysia and Indonesia

Charred ring of metal five metres in diameter found in Kalimantan and smaller piece discovered in Sarawak, Malaysia

Irish Mirror

Experts searching for answers as earth spins faster and midnight comes early

It normally takes the earth exactly 24 hours to rotate once on its axis, but on June 29, a change was recorded.

Inverse

Long March 5B: China's rocket makes an uncontrolled landing near the Philippines

China's Long March 5B rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on July 30. Its debris are located in the Sulu Sea near the Philippines.

Bangkok Post

Gifted James Lovelock was Darwin's heir

Jim Lovelock was a late bloomer. His first book, Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth, was published in 1979 when he was already 60 years old. By the time he died last Thursday, on his 103rd birthday, he had written ten more books on Gaia, the hypothesis that…

Salon

Silk may help solve microplastic problem

Non-biodegradable microplastics are a scourge to life on Earth. MIT researchers see a partial solution in silk

The Guardian - UK

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

The Conversation

New research reveals that wildfires can influence El Niño

Wildfire is a phenomenon that has affected pretty much every vegetated environment on Earth for millions of years. However, during the past few decades, the planet has been experiencing extraordinary wildfire activity, with widespread devastation in diverse places such as the Mediterranean, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australia and…

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