US election: Donald Trump says he will renegotiate America's role in global climate accord
US election: Donald Trump says he will renegotiate America's role in global climate accord Posted May 18, 2016 11:01:27 Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would renegotiate America's role in the UN global climate accord, spelling potential doom for an agreement many view as the last chance to turn the tide on global warming. Key points:Trump vows to renegotiate agreed US targets from the Paris climate summitHe says he is willing to spe..>> view originalScientists have invented self-spooling 'liquid wire' that acts like spider silk
Get right up close to a spider web, and you'll see some very particular properties: it stays taut in the wind, is really hard to break apart, and any flies coming into contact with it are trapped, rather than bouncing off it. Well, the same sticky substance that traps the flies also helps maintain tension in the web, and now scientists have come up with a way of replicating this in the lab – with a 'liquid wire' that exhibits many of the same properties of webs spun by spiders. So why doesn't ..>> view originalGenes offer clue to giraffe's long neck
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giraffe for the first time, uncovering DNA quirks that help explain how the tallest animals on earth developed their remarkably long necks.Being a giraffe is not easy. To pump blood two metres up from the chest to the brain calls for a turbo-charged heart and twice the blood pressure of other mammals. Giraffes also need special safety valves to let them bend down for a drink and raise their heads again without fainting.The animals' unique body configur..>> view originalClimate Change This Week: Sobering Suicides, Battery Breakthrough, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Forests Protect The BUB: Bizarre, Useful and Beautiful biodiversity that sustains all of us, besides storing carbon -- and hooded Indian grasshoppers.Credit Kaushik GM at flickr OO India Is Set To Spend Over $6 Billion On Restoring Their Forests Forests: the cheapest way to store carbon Boreal Circle of Fire - a wildfire emitted many tons of climate-changing carbon emissions as it burned Fort McMurray, Canada, a city devoted to ..>> view originalGreg Hunt commits to Direct Inaction to preserve carbon tax scare campaign
Greg Hunt – aka “the best minister in the world”* – is certainly hitting his key performance indicators when it comes to avoiding questions. In Wednesday’s National Press Club debate on the environment I wanted to pin him down on one thing – what changes does he need to make to his Direct Action environment policy for it to meet the government’s emissions reduction target for 2030? Everyone I talk to – business groups, environmentalists, thinktanks – can see how he could ramp up his policies to..>> view originalAncient Asteroid, WA: Impact site suggests collision was larger than anything we've seen before
Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth in March1:49An asteroid could get as close as just 11,000 miles from the Earth surface when it passes by our planet on March 5. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: NASA A giant asteroid struck Earth 3.46 million years ago, dramatically changing the face of Australia.A GIANT asteroid hit Australia 3.46 billion years ago leaving a crater hundreds of kilometres wide, causing cliffs to crumble and triggering earthquakes and tsunamis.Scientists have found evidence of ..>> view originalArtificial intelligence boosts key Bose-Einstein experiment
In a first, a team of physicists is using artificial intelligence (AI) to run a complex experiment to create an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam known as a Bose-Einstein condensate — thus replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. Bose-Einstein condensates are some of the coldest places in the universe — far colder than outer space and typically less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. They can be used for mineral exploration or navigation systems as they ..>> view originalWhen should we worry about climate change?
ANALYSIS Video will begin in 5 seconds. How to debunk myths Debunking the myths and misinformation surrounding climate change is an important field for scientists, who must be careful not to reinforce the myths. PT1M22S 620 349 News that Tasmania's Cape Grim weather site had recorded its first baseline reading of 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide sparked some debate over the meaning of the milestone.As we noted ahead of the declaration of the first recording of 400ppm i..>> view original
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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