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Saturday Quote: Increased chance of asteroid attacks. Rainforest Resilience; Animal Awareness
Images provided by NASA show the asteroid 2024 YR4 observed on January 27, 2025 by a 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology. Credit: NMIT/NASA This week, researchers at Ferrera University reported on the evolution of skin, eyes and hair pigmentation in Europe over the past 45,000 years. A reexamination of Galileo space probe data strongly suggests that…
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Wealth tax linked to increased savings, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Uncle Sam is chronically running trillions of dollars in deficits, so one proposal to raise revenue is to tax the wealthiest Americans on their accumulated assets rather than their annual income. That is what it is. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has introduced a version of a wealth tax that would impose a 2% tax on net…
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Analysis of 160,000 movies reveals that “murderous words” have increased since 1970
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The amount of murder and homicide in movies has increased overall over the past 50 years, according to a study that analyzed a vast database of movie dialogue. Researchers used machine learning to search a database of subtitles for more than 160,000 English-language films produced between 1970 and 2000. They calculated the amount of character dialogue…
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Environment
Proximity to oil and gas wells linked to increased mortality from COVID-19
The life cycle stages of oil, gas, and coal, and their associated air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Credit: Energy Research and Social Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103104 From December 2019 to May 2022, 82 million coronavirus cases were reported in the United States, with approximately 1 million deaths related to the disease. Some communities have been particularly hard hit, including those…
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Environment
Report: Number of people affected by climate disasters in the Pacific has increased by 700% in the past decade
Average GDP loss for countries affected by Pacific climate disasters and the Pacific-wide average (billions of Australian dollars) Credit: Escalating emergency: 20 years of Pacific climate disasters (2024) Climate disasters are causing eight times more damage to the Pacific Ocean than ten years ago On average, 700 more people have been affected by climate disasters in the Pacific over the…
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European marine research community calls for increased monitoring to improve ocean observations
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain European ocean researchers are calling for urgent improvements and standardization of ocean monitoring. This call also extends to the international community, which gathers in Baku from today (11 November) for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29. To protect the ocean as a partner in the fight against climate change, comprehensive monitoring of its condition is…
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Biology
Study finds increased leaching of dissolved organic carbon in soil in rubber plantations
Credit: Journal of Environmental Management (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122965 Although rubber plantations bring significant economic benefits, large-scale rubber plantations have significant impacts on the ecological environment, especially in terms of soil physical and chemical properties. In a study published in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) found that the conversion of tropical rainforests to…
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Biology
Outdoor businesses and venues could benefit from increased biodiversity through bird calls
Significant relationships between bird species richness and standardized acoustic indices in 21 UK vineyards (a) ACI: Acoustic Complexity Index; (b) BIO: Bioacoustic Index. (c) NDSI: Normalized Differential Soundscape Index. (d) H: Acoustic entropy index. Lines represent model predicted values ​​with 95% confidence intervals (shading) from the generalized linear mixed model, and points indicate raw standardized acoustic index values ​​(jittered for…
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Environment
Studies have shown that South America is facing an increased risk of heat waves, droughts and fires.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In parts of South America, the number of extremely hot, dry and fire-prone days per year has tripled since 1970. South America is warming at a similar rate to the global average. However, some parts of the subcontinent are at increased risk of multiple simultaneous extreme weather events. These compound extreme weather events could have amplified…
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