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Melting Glaciers Are Causing Billions of Dollars of Damage

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and losses to tourism and fishing.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciam5 hr. 57 min. ago

Bomb that exploded prematurely in Athens would have caused extensive damage, Greek minister says

Bomb that exploded prematurely in Athens would have caused extensive damage, Greek minister says.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsNov 4th, 2024

I already damaged my Apple Watch Series 10

I don't think I'm clumsy, and I've never managed to damage an Apple Watch -- until now. Here's the story of the crack on my Apple Watch Series 10 screen......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsNov 4th, 2024

Major damage reported in Oklahoma City area after tornadoes tear across region

Major damage reported in Oklahoma City area after tornadoes tear across region.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  yahooRelated NewsNov 4th, 2024

Geodynamic mantle-flow model explains deformation of continental crust block in North China

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust, cratons have remained largely unchanged for billions of years. Although cratons have survived many geological events.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

Update on Little Donkey Who"d Been Chained Up & Left All Alone Has People Melting

Update on Little Donkey Who"d Been Chained Up & Left All Alone Has People Melting.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

"Doomsday" Antarctic glacier melting faster than expected, fueling calls for geoengineering

New studies about the Thwaites Glacier, also called the "Doomsday Glacier," have sparked a conversation about geoengineering as a climate change solution......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

Floridians selling gutted homes after storm damage from Hurricanes Helene, Miltoon

Floridians selling gutted homes after storm damage from Hurricanes Helene, Miltoon.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsNov 2nd, 2024

Satellite imagery may help protect coastal forests from climate change

Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate damage and allocate conservation resources......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Apple makes $1.1 billion commitment to expand satellite messaging

Apple is committing over a billion dollars more to its existing satellite provider GlobalStar in order to have it expand its ground bases and add more satellites for iPhone messaging.Image Credit: AppleTwo years after it first launched Emergency SOS.....»»

Category: appleSource:  appleinsiderRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Biden goes off script — again — causing a distraction for Harris in campaign"s home stretch

Biden goes off script — again — causing a distraction for Harris in campaign"s home stretch.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices

Taking away NOAA weather and climate data could raise food prices, among other things. As the Popo Agie River wends its way down from the glaciers atop Wyoming’s Wind River Moun.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Framework helps autonomous drones rendezvous with sperm whales for better tracking

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized vocalizations in order to understand how sperm whales communicate. But finding the whales and knowing where they will surface t.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

New Age ritual that send "bad energies" up in smoke may contribute to overharvesting of wild plants

A commercialized New Age ritual is causing not only "unwanted energies" to go up in smoke, but also foreign wild plants. A study by Utrecht University researchers Isabela Pombo Geertsma and Anastasia Stefanaki, alongside colleagues from Wageningen UR.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Best WiFi routers for blazing-fast internet anywhere in your home

So many people out there spend thousands of dollars to get the best laptops, desktop computers, tablets, and smartphones money can buy. Then they spend … The post Best WiFi routers for blazing-fast internet anywhere in your home appeared first.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  bgrRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Risk hunting: A proactive approach to cyber threats

Cybersecurity is an overly reactive industry. Too often we act like firefighters, rushing from blaze to blaze, extinguishing flames hoping to keep the damage to a minimum, rather than fire suppression experts designing environments that refuse to bur.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

African giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife products

In the past, African giant pouched rats have learned to detect explosives and the tuberculosis-causing pathogen. Now, a team of researchers have trained these rats to pick up the scent of pangolin scales, elephant ivory, rhino horn, and African black.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Experts call for trillions of dollars spent on fossil fuels to be redirected

New global findings in the 8th annual indicator report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveal that people in every country face record-breaking threats to health and survival from the rapidly changing climate, with 10 of 15 indic.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Mars may have been habitable much more recently than thought

Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the red planet is a kind of forensic scene for scientists investigating wh.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage

A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving lives.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

Hurricane Helene Disrupted Abortion Care in the South

Damage from Hurricane Helene forced the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina to shutter, disrupting health care for pregnant people across a large region.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024