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Animals are increasingly “shapeshifting” because of the climate crisis, researchers have said. From a report: Warm-blooded animals are changing their physiology to adapt to a hotter climate, the scientists found. This includes getting larger beaks, leg…

The Guardian writes:

About a third of all the world’s food goes to waste, and producing, transporting and letting that food rot releases 8-10% of global greenhouse gases. If food waste were a country, it would have the third-biggest carbon footprint a…

“A mystery lies deep within the Grand Canyon: one billion years’ worth of rocks have disappeared,” Space.com reported last week.

The BBC explains:
Today geologists know that the youngest of the hard, crystalline rocks are 1.7 billion years old, where…

“Rather than bouncing back, places hit repeatedly by hurricanes, floods and wildfires are unraveling,” reports the New York Times.

“Residents and employers leave, the tax base shrinks and it becomes even harder to fund basic services.”

That downward…

A new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic. From a report: The scientists found that heating in the region ultimately disturbed the circular pattern of winds known as th…

A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than Manhattan — and that’s the smallest. From a report: The ocean has always glowed. The Greeks and Romans knew of luminous se…

All of California’s national forests will be closed starting late Tuesday until mid-September to help “better provide public and firefighter safety due to the ongoing California wildfire crisis,” said the U.S. Forest Service in an order (PDF). CBS News…

“When residents of an affluent estate community in Alberta started hearing noise from a nearby power plant, they didn’t expect their complaints of sleepless nights would lead to a months-long investigation that would find a bitcoin mining operation had…

13日噴火した小笠原諸島の南にある「福徳岡ノ場」では現在、新島が掲載されている。この福徳岡ノ場にできた新島に関してJX通信社は現在、人工衛星を運営するアクセルスペースと共同で衛星写真の連続撮影を実施している。撮影は8月14日から16日までの期間行われたもの。このプレスリリースによると火山学者の静岡大学防災総合センター小山真人教授が分析コメントを掲載している（JX通信社リリース）。

それによると、今回の噴火は数年に1度しか起きない「プリニー式噴火」だったそうだ。小山教授によると噴火当時は非常に激し…