Tuesday, 30 August 2022

‘We feel truly alive’: meet the ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life

‘We feel truly alive’: meet the ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life

It can be challenging, but the rewards are enormous, and you don’t have to be rich to be an ocean voyager. By Sally Howard
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Canada has a quarter of world's soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News

Canada has a quarter of world's soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News

Canada stores about a quarter of all the soil carbon in the world, a new study has found, putting a spotlight on the country's role in preventing that carbon from being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.
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Sunday, 28 August 2022

Australia's Massive Bushfires Spawned a Dramatic Heat Anomaly in The Stratosphere

Australia's Massive Bushfires Spawned a Dramatic Heat Anomaly in The Stratosphere

Massive swathes of wilderness and the lives of billions of animals were extinguished into ash and smoke during Australia's Black Summer bushfires.
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Saturday, 27 August 2022

Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard

Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard

France is facing a widespread dearth of Dijon mustard, which news outlets wasted no time in attributing to the war in Ukraine. But the story is a whole lot spicier than that.
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Thursday, 25 August 2022

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may have walked upright has triggered scientific misconduct charges.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2022