Gardeners in Hampshire, a county in southeast England, were weeding their yard in April when they found 63 gold coins and one silver coin from King Henry VIII’s reign in the 16th century, with four of the coins inscribed with the initials of the king’s wives Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. From a report: The archaeological find was…
Tag: The Industrial Revolution
Rewilding farmland in tropical regions would store vast amounts of CO2
Converting 30 per cent of some tropical farmland into its original state could create a carbon store big enough for half of our emissions since the Industrial Revolution Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257191-rewilding-farmland-in-tropical-regions-would-store-vast-amounts-of-co2/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The legacy of of the Spitzer Space Telescope
To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar system, think of what the steam engine meant for the industrial revolution. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-legacy-spitzer-space-telescope.html…
Himalayan glacier shows evidence of start of Industrial Revolution
Human beings altered one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas hundreds of years before a person ever set foot there, new research has found. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/himalayan-glacier-evidence-start-industrial-revolution…
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: Kris Karnauskas, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of Colorado, has started walking around campus with a pocket-size carbon-dioxide detector. He’s not doing it to measure the amount of carbon pollution in the atmosphere. He’s interested in the amount of CO2 in each room. The indoor concentration of carbon dioxide…