It Turns Out That the Earth Has a Steady 27-Million-Year ‘Heartbeat’
It turns out that the Earth has a ‘heartbeat’: a long, slow geological pulse that lasts for 27.5 million years; marked by clusters of major geological events. Events including: volcanic activity, mass extinctions, major tectonic plate movements and sea level increases. The bad news is that periodic surges in geological activity often results in mass-extinction […]
In Antarctica, the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Faster Than Assumed, and the World’s Largest Iceberg Is Now Adrift
An enormous iceberg larger than Rhode Island has broken off of Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf, and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea. First spotted by an ESA’s satellite, the state-sized chunk of ice measures in at 170 kilometers (105 miles) long by 25 kilometers (15 miles) wide, making it the world’s largest iceberg. And […]
Hurricane SeasonTrending Towards Above Average for the Sixth Year in a Row
For the sixth year in a row, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will be another above-average year, although they don’t anticipate that this year will be a repeat of 2020’s “hyperactive” season, with a record-breaking number of storms. Additionally, 2021 is now the seventh year in a row that Atlantic […]
Peru Turns to Ancient Indigenous Technology to Avoid a Water Crisis
Peru is looking at using ancient indigenous water management techniques to keep water flowing to its residents as climate change causes the local climate to become increasingly arid. The 1,400-year-old nature-based practice makes use of a combination of man-made canals and the natural flow of groundwater to transport and retain the precious substance as it […]