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How Big Is A Blue Whale? Plus More Blue Whale’s Facts

Earthava

“The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived”, according to National Geographic’s Education Blog , and experts across the globe agree. Blue whales don’t break the record in every category, but it’s still worth noting some other amazing feats. Their massive lung volume helps keep their blood oxygenated during long dives.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars

Physics World

Her advanced science education began in 1919 when she entered Newnham College at the University of Cambridge on a scholarship. Payne-Gaposchkin’s great insight was to appreciate that spectra from excited or ionized atoms – such as would occur in the hot outer atmosphere of a star – differed from those of neutral atoms of the same species.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The business coalition is made up of ski resort companies, a hunting and fishing apparel and education business, a biking outfitter, a ranch, and a farm. She indicated that she would be willing to “bump” the oral argument to allow continuing negotiations. Chevron Corp.

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How climate change could sink the US real estate market

A Greener Life

Several rivers meander through the flat, swampy county and overflow after intense downpours, the kind that are occurring much more frequently as a warmer atmosphere leads to more intense rain events. A Category 5 hurricane striking, say, the center of the Miami-Dade area would be a shock of a different magnitude.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

NOAA also receives $20 million for climate change education activities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. Forests continue to fall to expanding agriculture, even as world leaders agree to save them – PoliticoPro Graphic.

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