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Earth’s alien world revealed in the top undersea photos of 2018

sudshr47 January 21, 2019

If something lives in the icy waters sloshing around Europa – a large Jupiter moon suspected to contain a salty ocean beneath its icy shell – perhaps it looks like the see-through, orange-speckled squids swimming in Hawaiian waters.

The top photos from the 2018 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition have been released, and they depict an alien world: a wall of sharks, a ceiling of rays, dancing seahorses.

Many of the alien photos were captured by divers well beneath the surface, which carries the challenge of lighting up the dark sea. But the efforts are illuminating, like a wide-eyed fish munching on the insides of jellyfish, and an exquisitely camouflaged angler – who looks like the very seafloor itself – though with an ominous mouth. Read more…

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The Weather Channel previews ice storm in scary immersive mixed reality

sudshr47 January 18, 2019

Let Jim Cantore scare you into staying inside this weekend.
The Weather Channel meteorologist stars in a new video previewing this weekend’s winter storm, which is set to strike the Midwest and Northeast. Like the network’s previous videos about …

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Admire, or be aghast, at this huge fatberg found in a British seaside town

sudshr47 January 9, 2019

Here’s another reminder to stop flushing your wet wipes down the toilet.

Water authorities discovered a huge fatberg, measuring a dizzyingly large 64 metres (69.9 yards) long, lurking in a sewer beneath the English coastal town of Sidmouth.

It may not be as large as the 250 metre (273 yard) long one found in London in 2017, but boy, it’s certainly as gross looking for sure.

South West Water posted pics of the fatberg on Twitter.

Devon’s largest #fatberg has been discovered in Sidmouth. It’s a whopping 64 metres long, that’s over 6 double-decker buses back-to-back 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌😷#ThinkSink 👉 Don’t pour cooking oil, fat and grease down the sink#LoveYourLoo 👉 Only flush the #3Ps – pee, paper and poo pic.twitter.com/fTtd2vazLc

— South West Water (@SouthWestWater) January 8, 2019 Read more…

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Audio recorded inside rainforests reveals a rowdy symphony of nature

sudshr47 January 4, 2019

The deep rainforest is a symphony.

In the rainforests of Indonesia, New Guinea, and other wild lands, scientists strapped microphones to trees and recorded the boisterous howls, grumbles, and shrieks that echo through the woods. It’s called bioacoustics, and in a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers highlighted the value of using recorded wild sound — which you can hear below — to gauge how animals are doing in both vulnerable and protected forests.

Modern satellite images certainly give detailed images of the forest canopies, and have proven valuable in grasping the health of rainforests. But they don’t tell you what’s happening to the creatures underneath the thick canopy — many of whom are vulnerable to hunting and overexploitation. Read more…

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Incredibly detailed satellite images show volcano’s collapse after volcanic tsunami

sudshr47 January 4, 2019

Two weeks ago, a deadly volcanic tsunami struck in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, catching residents by surprise.
Clouds have obscured people from capturing the aftermath, but earth observation company Planet Labs managed to capture high resolution images…

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Colin O’Brady makes history with solo mission across Antarctica

sudshr47 December 28, 2018

The American is the first person in history to cross the frozen continent without any assistance. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Antarctica, Culture, and Climate Environment

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Explaining the deadly volcanic tsunami that hit Indonesia

sudshr47 December 24, 2018

Hundreds are dead, with more missing, following a tsunami that took the Indonesian coast by surprise on Dec. 22.

But this was no typical tsunami. Rather, it was a volcanic tsunami, and understanding what that means may help explain why this particular manifestation of nature’s power was so devastating.

The tsunami that struck between the Sumatra and Java islands was triggered not by an earthquake — as is typically the case with tsunamis — but instead by an active volcano in the area known as Anak Krakatau. The volcano reportedly partially collapsed, triggering a landslide underwater, which then in turn kicked off the tsunami, said Dwikorita Karnawati, who leads Indonesia’s meteorological agency, according to multiple news reports. Read more…

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Climate change made these 17 extreme weather events radically worse

sudshr47 December 10, 2018

Just as scientists confidently predicted last century, climate change is pushing weather to extremes all over the planet.

A new report, published Monday by the American Meteorological Society, again proves the point. The 100-page report assessed 17 extreme weather events from 2017 — including floods, droughts, and heat waves — and determined global warming either significantly boosted the odds of these events, or simply made such extreme, often deadly events possible in the first place.

“We are in a world that is warmer than in the 20th Century, and we keep moving farther from that baseline,” Martin Hoerling, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist who worked on the report, said at the 2018 American Geophysical Union conference on Monday. Read more…

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Camp Fire survivor elated to find dog waiting at their burned down house

sudshr47 December 9, 2018

When Andrea Gaylord was forced to evacuate the devastating Camp Fire in Northern California in November, she couldn’t get back home to take her dog Madison with her to safety as the fires spread.
The evacuation order was lifted nearly a month after i…

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How the environment is connected to economic growth — and how to boost both

sudshr47 November 22, 2018

Earth’s natural resources largely determine the global economy’s ebb and flow. As such, the effects of climate change continue to cause concern among economists and environmentalists alike.

In 2018, professors William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work exploring how climate change affects economic stability. Ultimately, the pair’s research found the phenomena to be closely linked. The case for investment in sustainable ventures is clear: Without such commitments, both the planet and the global economic ecosystem will suffer.

Sustainable investments may jump start the slow process of changing consumer habits. Below, we examine the economy-boosting benefits of environmentally friendly business models — and how sustainable investment plays an important role. Read more…

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Harrowing video shows helicopter rescue of several people and their dogs from California wildfire

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

While the Woolsey Fire in southern California, is largely contained (96% as of Monday night) some of the terrifying images from the last several weeks are continuing to trickle out, including the above video of an absolutely incredible rescue.

The footage is harrowing, taken from a helmet cam, as rescuers navigate a helicopter among the wind, smoke, and fire to land safely and rescue three people — and two dogs — on Castro Peak near Malibu.

It also offers up a rare perspective of what it takes to make these rescues, how complicated and dangerous they are and the risks taken by first responders in dire situations — in this case LAFD Air Operations pilots David Nordquist and Joel Smith. Read more…

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Trump administration changes EPA website to be kinder to fracking

sudshr47 November 18, 2018

At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its website pages on fracking.

A watchdog group known as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative tracked those changes across the EPA’s site and just released a report documenting the group’s findings. The result of the changes has left an official U.S. government website looking more like an extension of the fossil fuel industry than a federal agency with a mission to protect the environment.

The most obvious EPA website change from the report is the very title of the fracking page. Previously called “Natural Gas Extraction – Hydraulic Fracturing,” the EPA webpage on fracking is now titled “Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Development.” Read more…

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