ALERT: Global Methane Emissions 110 Percent Higher Than Previously Thought
Oct 06, 2016 05:30 AM EDT A new study shows that global emissions of methane from oil and gas production and natural sources combined are 60 to 110 percent higher than the current estimates. The study, published in the journal Nature, also revealed that methane leak during the production and use of natural oil, gas and coal is 20 to 60 percent higher than estimated. However, the researchers noted that the oil and gas industry is not to blame for the rise of methane concentrations in the atmos..>> view originalNow That Bees Are Endangered, The Rest Is Up To Us
Last week brought big news in the conservation world: For the first time, a bee species — seven of them, actually — were declared endangered. The seven types of yellow-faced bees native to Hawaii received the designation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The move offers the creatures some newfound protection, even if the agency failed to designate a critical habitat. Of course, the plight of bees across the U.S., North America and the world has increasingly been on the radar of the envir..>> view originalBlue Origin Pitches Space Tourists Package Deal to Ride Orbital Rocket
Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule separates from its rocket during a successful "in-flight escape test" on Oct. 5, 2016. Credit: Blue Origin. Blue Origin hopes people use the company to get two different sets of astronaut wings. Blue Origin, which is ...>> view originalScience|What's the Longest Humans Can Live? 115 Years, New Study Says
Leading figures in the debate greeted the new study with strong — and opposing — reactions.“It all tells a very compelling story that there’s some sort of limit,” said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has made a similar argument for over 25 years. James W. Vaupel, the director of the Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging, has long rejected the suggestion that humans are approaching a life span limit. He called the new ..>> view originalWhy organic chemistry is awesome
Sign Up for Our free email newsletters Most branches of science have a well-known representative or two: Physics has Albert Einstein. Biology has Charles Darwin. Chemistry, on the other hand, doesn't have anyone nearly so famous. Marie Curie or Linus Pauling come reasonably close, but they're not household names like Darwin and Einstein. And when it comes to organic chemistry (the study of carbon) it's an unfortunate truth that the fictional Walter White is probably the most famous s..>> view originalAlien 'megastructure'? Mysteriously dimming star puzzles scientists.
The more scientists learn about "Tabby's Star," the more mysterious the bizarre object gets.Newly analyzed observations by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope show that the star KIC 8462852 — whose occasional, dramatic dips in brightness still have astronomers scratching their heads — has also dimmed overall during the last few years."The steady brightness change in KIC 8462852 is pretty astounding," study lead author Ben Montet, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, s..>> view originalParis climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4
UNITED NATIONS — The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key threshold on Wednesday. President Barack Obama hailed the news as “a turning point for our planet,” and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the agreement’s strong international support a “testament for the urgency of action.” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas ..>> view originalSaturn Moon Dione Has Subsurface Ocean Just Like Titan and Enceladus But Can It Host Life?
Data from NASA’s current Cassini-Huygens mission, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has found that a subsurface ocean lies below the icy crust of the planet’s moon Dione. Two other of Saturn’s seven moons, Titan and Enceladus, also have oceans deep within them but the new data confirms the same to be true for Dione—discovered in 1684, along with three other of Saturn's moons, by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. In the study, published in journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of rese..>> view originalGiant fireball streaks through the night sky. Is that normal?
On Tuesday night, Toronto police and fire services received calls about sightings of a plane crash, and Twitter was astir with reports a fireball streaking through the sky.For some, the streak of bright light across the sky around 10:30 p.m. was accompanied by a sonic boom, according to The Washington Post. The hashtags #meteor and #fireball spread on Twitter, and the University of Toronto Scarborough Observatory managed to capture the fireball on video.To much relief of emergency responders, t..>> view original
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