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‘Best estimate’ for impact of melting ice on sea level rise
The EU funded team say the ice sheets and glaciers could add 36.8 centimetres to the oceans by 2100.The researchers also included projections for sea level rise in Europe that includes the effects of thermal expansion, ice melt and storm surges. In these scenarios, the British Isles could face an increase of slightly over a metre by 2100. Enough to overwhelm the Thames Barrier and see London flooded once every ten years. read more
are words that, when I went into environmental sustainability, I did not think i would use to such an extent that they would sufficiently lose all meaning, and instead manifest though other sensory processes- taking on the color of dermestid beetles and the taste of gelatinous canned chicken.
What happens when two galaxies collide? Although it may take over a billion years, such titanic clashes are quite common. Since galaxies are mostly empty space, no internal stars are likely to themselvescollide. Rather the gravitation of each galaxy will distort or destroy the other galaxy, and the galaxies may eventually merge to form a single larger galaxy. Expansive gas and dust clouds collide and trigger waves of star formation that complete even during the interaction process. Pictured above is a computer simulation of two large spiral galaxies colliding, interspersed with real still images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Our own Milky Way Galaxy has absorbed several smaller galaxies during its existence and is even projected to merge with the larger neighboring Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.
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Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark
Daily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time. The station, which sits on the Mauna Loa volcano, feeds its numbers into a continuous record of the concentration of the gas stretching back to 1958.
The last time CO2 was regularly above 400ppm was three to five million years ago - before modern humans existed. read more
back when tittleman’s crest was still vast and unknown
“Photographer Rä di Martino tracked down abandoned sets from Star Wars in Tunisia using Google Earth, then photographed them. It looks kinda lonely out there without R2-D2 beeping around. But still, major nerd points for this project. Rä di Martino via DesignTAXI”
Beloved British nerd comedy The IT Crowd is at long last coming back for its finale special. Creator Graham Lineham announced at a conference in Germany yesterday that this 40-minute episode — which he’s been talking about for years — will start shooting in a few weeks.
Arctodus simus: top 5 favorite animals of all time
Brown Bear Cubs, Katmai National Park, Alaska - Photo by Paul Souders
One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
“We’re getting closer and closer to the point where we don’t have enough bees in this country to meet pollination demands,” said entomologist Dennis vanEngelstorp of the University of Maryland, who led the survey documenting the declines. read more
work today:
the level of cuteness these shrews have attained has actually hindered my ability to do anything remotely considered work.
What caused the interestingly intricate tails that Comet Lemmon displayed earlier this year? First of all, just about every comet that nears the Sun displays two tails: a dust tail and an ion tail. Comet Lemmon’s dust tail, visible above and around the comet nucleus in off-white, is produced by sun-light reflecting dust shed by the comet’s heated nucleus. Flowing and more sculptured, however, is C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)’s blue ion tail, created by the solar wind pushing ions expelled by the nucleus away from the Sun. Also of note is the coma seen surrounding Comet Lemmon’s nucleus, tinted green by atomic carbon gas fluorescing in sunlight. The above image was taken from the dark skies of Namibia in mid-April. Comet Lemmon is fading as it now heads back to the outer Solar System.
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