Since 1976 “Project Censored,” a U.S.-based nonprofit media watchdog organization, has been identifying “the news that didn’t make the news,” the most significant stories it believes are being systematically overlooked. Slashdot ran stories about its annual list of the year’s most censored news stories in 1999, 2003, 2004, and in 2007, when they’d presciently warned that the media was ignoring the…
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Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds
Australia’s climate has entered a new era of sustained extreme weather events, such as dangerous bushfires and heatwaves, courtesy of rising average temperatures, a new report by the nation’s two government climate science agencies has found. From a report: Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mostly from fossil fuel burning, has driven more dangerous bushfires, rising sea levels and…
Preparing for Sentinel-6’s challenging early days
Teams at ESA’s mission control centre are getting ready to ensure a new Sentinel Earth Observation mission safely arrives in its correct orbit, from where it will map, measure and monitor rising sea levels after its launch on 10 November. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-sentinel-early-days.html…
Stone Age dog may have been buried with its master
After the dog’s burial, rising sea levels flooded the region. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html
Greenland Lost 586 Billion Tons of Ice In 2019
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all records with 586 billion…
Rising sea levels may have helped dinosaurs dominate the planet
A vast floodplain was drowned by rising seas 227 million years ago and this may have created the ecological conditions for dinosaurs to become more common Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246210-rising-sea-levels-may-have-helped-dinosaurs-dominate-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Scientist proposes damming entire North Sea
A Dutch oceanographer has suggested building two gigantic dams as a solution to rising sea levels. The ridiculously ambitious concept, which would ess… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334565/scientist-proposes-damming-entire-north-sea…
The Municipal Bond Market Is Using Geospatial Data For Climate Risk Evaluation
mikeebbbd shares a report from Los Angeles Times: The $3.8-trillion municipal-bond market has found a new tool in its effort to understand the effects of climate change: satellites orbiting Earth. Assessing climate risks is a particularly vexing problem given that U.S. state and local governments tend to give investors information that’s too little or just too late. But the use of…
The last mammoths died on a remote island
A new study suggests that about 4,000 years ago, a combination of Isolation, extreme weather, and the arrival of humans on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean killed off Earth’s last population of mammoths. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/last-wooly-mammoths-died-on-remote-island…
Sea level rises mean some towns must now decide to abandon or defend
Rising sea levels mean that a managed retreat for coastal communities is no longer a case of if, but when and how Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332453-800-sea-level-rises-mean-some-towns-must-now-decide-to-abandon-or-defend/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…