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September 16, 2024
The active hurricane season, which led to the National Hurricane Center in Miami issuing a tropical storm warning for California’s coast and hurricane warnings for Nova Scotia, will end on Thursday evening. In the Atlantic basin, there were a total of 20 named storms, which is the fourth-highest amount since 1950. Among these storms were
READ MORENew parents face the challenge of balancing sleep and monitoring their newborns. A study found that penguins take numerous mini-naps throughout the day to accomplish this. Chinstrap penguins living in Antarctica must constantly protect their eggs and offspring in loud and crowded colonies. To remain alert, they take short, frequent naps throughout the day, lasting
READ MOREThe White House announced on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris will be part of the U.S. delegation to attend the yearly United Nations summit on global warming in Dubai. It seems that the upcoming COP28 trip was organized quickly, as her team had previously stated she had no intention of attending. The reason for
READ MOREThe Biden administration has released a proposal to provide threatened species protections to the North American wolverine, which has been delayed for a long time. This is in response to warnings from scientists that climate change is causing the species’ snowy mountain habitats to disappear, putting them at risk of extinction. In many parts of
READ MOREA team of astronomers has made a remarkable discovery: a solar system with six planets that are perfectly synchronized, resembling a vast cosmic symphony. These planets have remained undisturbed since their formation billions of years ago. On Wednesday, it was announced that the discovery can provide insight into the formation of solar systems in the
READ MOREExperts stated that the Earth’s temperature will experience significantly less increase than initially predicted ten years ago. However, this positive development is overshadowed by the greater negative effects of present-day climate change, which were underestimated by scientists. This is one of several conflicting situations that climate negotiators will confront as they convene in Dubai for
READ MOREOn Saturday, in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra, a Sumatran rhino that is classified as critically endangered, was born, making it the second one to be born in the country this year. This is a positive development for the species, which currently has less than 50 animals remaining. Delilah, a female, delivered a male calf
READ MOREFor generations, the people living on Banco Chinchorro, a Caribbean island in Mexico near Belize, have been harvesting queen conch for their meat and salmon-pink shells. However, due to declining populations, Mexico has implemented restrictions and prohibitions on catching these shellfish in recent years. Despite implementing measures such as a five-year ban on catches in
READ MOREDespite the extreme weather conditions of record-breaking temperatures, heavy rains, dry spells, and raging wildfires, officials are coming together for another meeting of the United Nations to discuss ways to reduce the long-standing issue of humans emitting increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the air. For centuries, humans have altered their surroundings to suit their
READ MOREThe British Antarctic Survey reports that one of the biggest icebergs on record is now moving away from the Antarctic region, after being stuck for over thirty years. In 1986, a portion of the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf, called A23a, broke off and became attached to the ocean floor in the Weddell Sea, where it
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