Look closer. I think that’s a Galilean moon next to Jupiter.
Category: The Natural World
We broke down what climate change will do, region by region | Grist
This article is from November, 2018. Read it anyway.
Comet NEOWISE Through the Clouds
I caught it! Comet NEOWISE shows up in the last five seconds! Pretty dim but it’s just above and right of center as the clouds part.
We Are [Neutron] Star Dust. We Are Golden…
“…/And we’ve got to get ourselves/Back to the garden” Woodstock, Joni Mitchell
This is interesting! I knew we are “star stuff” but specifically “neutron-star-collision stuff” is cool! It also makes me wonder how technological life would be different if it developed where they didn’t have these resources or if our planet was seeded with an extra crap-ton of stuff from a supernova!
Birds Sing to Their Eggs, and This Song Might Help Their Babies Survive Climate Change | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Australian Zebra Finches use their voices to change how their chicks will grow before they hatch out of their eggs! Wild!
We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change – The On Being Project
Kate Marvel captures and expresses my feelings here:
We need courage, not hope. Grief, after all, is the cost of being alive. We are all fated to live lives shot through with sadness, and are not worth less for it. Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending. Little molecules, random in their movement, add together to a coherent whole. Little lives do not. But here we are, together on a planet radiating ever more into space where there is no darkness, only light we cannot see.
Jacobabad’s Extreme Heat Could Become the World’s New Normal | Time
This is not hyperbole. This is bad news.
Chasing The Methane Dragon That Lurks In The Deep Sea | HuffPost
‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050, report finds | The Independent
This needs to be part of the discussion.
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