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From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
8/30/19
Atmospheric energies collide to set off the rare 'green flash'
Advances in camera and lens technology may have led to a gradual proliferation of green flashes being captured and posted on social media, but its cause remains relatively unknown outside of meteorological circles.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: Di (amina046)
8/30/19
Australia downgrades outlook for Great Barrier Reef over warming
? Watch Video: Climate Diaries: Mini-satellites help map the Great Barrier Reef Canberra, Australia - The government agency that manages Australia's Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals' condition from "poor" to "very poor" due to warming oceans. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's condition report, which is updated every five years, is the latest bad news for...
Read more from Google NewsFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
8/31/19
It took them ages to acknowledge there was actually a problem!
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
9/23/19
Scientists unveil drill that will extract 1 million-year-old ice core
Scientists hope a drill that can plunge 3 kilometres down into an Antarctic ice cap and withstand temperatures of -55 degrees Celsius will help solve one of the last great puzzles in climate science.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: BerrySteph
9/29/19
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:Scientists hope a drill that can plunge 3 kilometres down into an Antarctic ice cap and withstand temperatures of -55 degrees Celsius will help solve one of the last great puzzles in climate science.
Important mystery there - possibly that CO2 levels finally fell so low that ice ages suddenly became the default condition on earth.
... "We want to get that ice, analyse those time capsules and understand what [carbon dioxide] did through that period around a million years ago when the climate was changing."
One million years ago, Homo erectus was walking the Earth and Australia was home to megafauna such as the rhinoceros-sized 'wombat' Diprotodon.
At the same time, the Earth's climate made a shift from a 40,000-year ice age and interglacial cycle, to a 100,000-year cycle.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/2/19
Vision captures rare pink 'slinky-like' squid eggs off Cairns
One squid, most likely the diamondback squid, lays an estimated 40,000 free-floating eggs into Great Barrier Reef waters.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/3/19
You have to wonder how it keeps its form and doesn't disperse in the water.
From: PTG (anotherPTG)
10/3/19
Di (amina046) said:Ulawun PAG
FIY: Ulawun is a basaltic and andesitic stratovolcano in West New Britain Province, on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.