Tag: Catastrophic

Atmospheric CO2 Just Hit a Peak Not Seen on Earth in 4 Million Years

Despite slim hopes that global shutdowns during the pandemic might bring respite from the climate crisis, yet more evidence confirms that no such silver lining exists. Newly released measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in fact show that concentrations of the heat-trapping chemical have surged to record levels not seen by scientists in the […]

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The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that’s happening now | Live Science

The death of the dinosaurs was just one of five global events that saw millions of species wiped out. How do these events happen? And how can we stop it happening again? For the last 10,000 years, Earth has been in the midst of yet another extinction event that is rapidly removing animals from our […]

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Israel Accuses Iran of Link to Oil Spill Off Its Shores  | Voice of America – English

TEL AVIV – Israel accused Iran on Wednesday of being linked to a recent oil spill off its shores that caused major ecological damage, calling the incident environmental terrorism. The spill was caused by an oil tanker that was carrying pirated cargo from Iran to Syria last month, Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said. […]

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H5N8 should you be Worried

H5N8 H5N8 is a subtype of the influenza A virus and is highly lethal to wild birds and poultry. H5N8 is typically not associated with humans; however, seven people in Russia were found to be infected in 2021. First Cases of H5N8 Bird Flu in Humans “It’s a respiratory virus that spreads easily between people.” […]

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Will an Asteroid Hit Earth in 2022?

kiss your family hug them NASA, other space agencies, astronomers and even hobbyists spend a lot of time on searching the sky for these so-called near Earth objects (NEOs). They try to deduce their orbit as accurately as possible. Astronomers then rank the objects by impact probability and put them onto a list. You can […]

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Russia has launched an anti-satellite missile test, US Space Command says | Space

Russia has launched a new anti-satellite missile test in its latest push to weaponize space, U.S. Space Command officials said Wednesday (Dec. 16).  In its third anti-satellite test this year, Russia launched a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile, which can destroy small satellites in low Earth orbit. When a satellite is struck by a DA-ASAT missile, […]

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Election Day Asteroid: Is an Asteroid Really Hitting Earth Nov 2?

A car-sized asteroid called 2018 VP1 will swing past Earth on November 2, the day before Election Day 2020. Fortunately, 2018 VP1 has a 0.41 percent chance of entering Earth’s atmosphere. It would likely burn up anyway. Researchers discovered the asteroid in 2018 using telescopes at the Zwicky Transient Facility in California… Another world Ender More about this doomsday […]

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