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In January of 2019, journalist Elizabeth Rush joined 56 scientists and crew people aboard an ice-breaking research vessel to study the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica. The glacier, which is about the size of the state of Florida, has been nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” for the effect its disintegration would likely play in the rise of global sea levels. “If we lose Thwaites, there's great concern that we will lose the entirety or big portions of the West Antarctic ice sheet and that those glaciers combined contain enough ice to raise global sea levels 10 feet or more,” Rush told Dan Richards on this episode of Trending Globally. Rush recounts her voyage aboard the Palmer and how it reshaped her understanding of our changing climate and planet in her 2023 book, “The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World.” However, as the title suggests, the book is also about another, more personal journey: Rush's decision to have a child. The resulting book is part adventure travelogue, part mediation on the meaning of motherhood, and part climate change manifesto. It also offers some much-needed wisdom on how to envision a future when it feels like the world is falling apart. Learn more about and purchase “The Quickening”Learn more about “The Conceivable Future”Transcript coming soon to our website

Tipping points are a grave threat but it's not too late for humanity to reduce the risks.  Synopsis: Every first and third Sunday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change. The world is on the brink of major changes to the natural world that could have truly devastating consequences for billions of people.  These are parts of the natural world that are at risk of abrupt and irreversible changes. For instance, runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets; collapse of a key ocean circulation in the Atlantic; melting of permafrost; dieback of the Amazon rainforest and warm-water coral reefs. There are many more.  What's causing this? Man-made global warming is a major reason. So is pollution and over-exploitation of resources.  Planetary tipping points represent one of the gravest threats to humanity, yet many people seem unaware of the danger. And some of these tipping points might be close to, or already past the point of no return. Yet, there's still time to stop others from occurring if we act fast.  To learn more about this, we speak to Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University in Britain. Tim recently led the biggest study yet into global tipping points.  Highlights of conversation (click/tap above): 1:29  What are planetary tipping points and why should we be concerned? 2:23  What are some examples and how close are we to some of these tipping points? 4:06 And what are the major tipping point risks for Asia? 9:01 Tell us more about the danger from a cascade of tipping points, where one major planetary change causes a domino effect of triggering other tipping points? 14:29  The good news is that there are steps humanity can take – positive tipping points. What are some examples? 17: 40 But humanity has already caused major changes to the planet. Does that mean we have to adapt to a rapidly changing world no matter what we do?  Produced by: David Fogarty (dfogarty@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Amirul Karim Edited by: Hadyu Rahim Follow Green Pulse Podcast here and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWaf Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWaY Spotify: https://str.sg/JWag Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow David Fogarty on X: https://str.sg/JLM6 Read his articles: https://str.sg/JLMu --- Discover more ST podcast channels: COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #greenpulseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tipping points are a grave threat but it's not too late for humanity to reduce the risks.  Synopsis: Every first and third Sunday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change. The world is on the brink of major changes to the natural world that could have truly devastating consequences for billions of people.  These are parts of the natural world that are at risk of abrupt and irreversible changes. For instance, runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets; collapse of a key ocean circulation in the Atlantic; melting of permafrost; dieback of the Amazon rainforest and warm-water coral reefs. There are many more.  What's causing this? Man-made global warming is a major reason. So is pollution and over-exploitation of resources.  Planetary tipping points represent one of the gravest threats to humanity, yet many people seem unaware of the danger. And some of these tipping points might be close to, or already past the point of no return. Yet, there's still time to stop others from occurring if we act fast.  To learn more about this, we speak to Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University in Britain. Tim recently led the biggest study yet into global tipping points.  Highlights of conversation (click/tap above): 1:29  What are planetary tipping points and why should we be concerned? 2:23  What are some examples and how close are we to some of these tipping points? 4:06 And what are the major tipping point risks for Asia? 9:01 Tell us more about the danger from a cascade of tipping points, where one major planetary change causes a domino effect of triggering other tipping points? 14:29  The good news is that there are steps humanity can take – positive tipping points. What are some examples? 17: 40 But humanity has already caused major changes to the planet. Does that mean we have to adapt to a rapidly changing world no matter what we do?  Produced by: David Fogarty (dfogarty@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Amirul Karim Edited by: Hadyu Rahim Follow Green Pulse Podcast here and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWaf Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWaY Spotify: https://str.sg/JWag Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow David Fogarty on X: https://str.sg/JLM6 Read his articles: https://str.sg/JLMu --- Discover more ST podcast channels: COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #greenpulseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*** How history's largest ape met its end *** For nearly two million years, a gigantic ape, three meters tall and weighing a quarter of a tonne, lived in what is now southern China, before mysteriously disappearing. Exactly why the Gigantopithecus Blacki went extinct has been a huge mystery for paleontologists, especially because other apes were able to thrive at the time. Now a massive study, co-led by geochronologist Kira Westaway of Macquarie University, reveals their size was a disadvantage, and left them unable to adapt to a changing climate. The research was published in the journal Nature. *** People with PTSD process their trauma as if it's happening in the present *** Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by intrusive thoughts that cause people to relive their trauma. In a new study in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists have figured out that this is reflected in brain activity. Daniela Schiller, a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said their brains respond differently with traumatic memories than with ordinary memories, causing the traumatic memories to feel as if they are happening in the present, rather than the past. *** Paleontologists identify animal skin 4½ times older than the last dinosaurs *** A fossilised skin sample discovered in an Oklahoma cave is the oldest skin sample ever identified. It belonged to a reptile species that lived nearly 300 million years ago. Ethan Mooney, a paleontology masters student at the University of Toronto, said this skin fossil gives insight into how the first vertebrate animals adapted to a more protective with the critical transition from ocean to land. Their research was published in the journal Current Biology. *** How an octopus told us the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed *** Scientists are trying to learn when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last collapsed, in order to learn when it might happen again. In a new study, published in the journal Science, Sally Lau at James Cook University analyzed the DNA of Turquet's octopuses, which have been scuttling around the Antarctic sea floor for millions of years. These octopuses are today separated by massive ice sheets, but by looking at when different populations were able to breed throughout history, they could see when the ice wasn't there. *** Geologic Hydrogen could be clean, green and plentiful *** More than a century ago we discovered that there were rich deposits of energy buried deep in Earth, and so oil and gas became the foundation of our industrial civilization. Now history might be repeating itself as scientists think there could be massive amounts of clean, green hydrogen hiding underground as well. Quirks producer Jim Lebans spoke with Geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar from the University of Toronto, and geologist Geoffrey Ellis from the United States Geological Survey to understand where this hydrogen has come from, how much there is, and what its potential could be as an energy resource.

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The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 131 *Mystery of the Martian core solved A new study of data from NASA's Mars Insight lander mission has concluded that the Martian liquid metallic core is both smaller and denser than previously thought -- but also that it's surrounded by a layer of molten rock. *Protecting Europa Clipper from Jupiter's immense radiation Engineers have just completed the final piece of armour designed to protect NASA's Europa clipper spacecraft from intense radiation during its mission to explore the Jovian ice moon Europa. *India launches its first crew capsule India has carried out a successful test flight of its new manned capsule which will the subcontinent's first astronauts into orbit in 2025. *The Science Report A new study warns that future increases in ice-shelf melting in the West Antarctic are now potentially unavoidable. Claims vegetarianism may be partly related to your genes. Eastern Mediterranean was once a region of green savannahs and grasslands that provided an ideal passage for multiple early human movements out of Africa. Alex on Tech new AI chips and happy 22nd birthday to the I-pod. If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen to. Thank you… To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts. For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com Your support is needed... **Support SpaceTime with Stuart Gary: Be Part of Our Cosmic Journey!** SpaceTime is fueled by passion, not big corporations or grants. We're on a mission to become 100% listener-supported, allowing us to focus solely on bringing you riveting space stories without the interruption of ads.

The enviro-news you need to know for Friday, October 27 2023:[00:30] The West Antarctic ice sheet appears to be headed for an eventual “collapse”[3:00] The oil giants are feeling pretty darn good about their futures, apparently[6:30] Why on earth is the US government funding enhanced oil recovery?[13:00] This potential climate warrior may be gearing up for a White House run  Resources mentioned:Companies capture a lot of CO2. Most of it is going into new oil. (via WaPo)Episode #381: Our Carbon ProblemJoin our (free!) community here.Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube.Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw Home! Use code SUSTAINABLE for 20% off. https://lifestraw.com/* Thank you to our sponsor, Armoire! Use code SUSTAINABLE for up to $125 off your first month. http://www.armoire.style/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Matt and Nick talk about Exxon's purchase of Pioneer and Chevron's purchase of Hess (ExxonMobil agrees to buy shale rival Pioneer in $60 billion deal and Chevron to buy Hess Corp for $53 billion in all-stock deal),West Antarctica's ice shelf melting (Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable'),Clean Hydrogen Hubs in the US (Biden-Harris Administration Announces $7 Billion For America's First Clean Hydrogen Hubs),California's new shrub rules (California homeowners will face new rules for where they can plant shrubs),The EPA's ban of trichloroethylene or TCE (Biden's “Moonshot” To Fight Cancer Just Took A Big Step Forward By Moving To Ban This Chemical)Atlantic Hurricanes are getting more powerful due to climate change (More Atlantic Hurricanes Rapidly Increasing to Cat. 3, Study Finds),And global efforts to end deforestation by 2030 need to ramp up big time (World far off track on pledges to end deforestation by 2030)!Make sure to check out our sponsor for today's episode at Vala Alta and use promo code “TPT” for 15% off.

Without a speaker in the House of Representatives, Congress isn’t getting much work done. That includes progress on the farm bill, which is up for renewal this year. We’ll get into what potential cuts to the farm bill could mean and some of the bill’s past shortcomings. Plus, a new study found that the West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt faster despite serious action on climate change. Also, we say goodbye to a record holder who was a very good boy. Here’s everything we talked about: “House Ag Dems fight farm bill cuts” from Politico “Introducing “How We Survive: The Worth of Water”’ from Marketplace “Crop insurance costs soar over time, reaching a record high in 2022″ from Environmental Working Group “Faster Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is ‘Unavoidable'” from Bloomberg “Jump scares are declining in horror movies — but the scariest remain” from The Washington Post “Bobi, world’s oldest dog ever, dies at 31 (or about 217 in dog years)” from ABC News Do you have a question that you want to ask us or a comment about something we talked about? Call us at 508-U-B-SMART or email makemesmart@marketplace.org.

Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz have been freed by Hamas but their husbands are still being held in Gaza. Also: a new study warns that increasing melting of West Antarctic's ice shelf is 'unavoidable'; Bobi, the world's oldest dog, dies aged 31.

Without a speaker in the House of Representatives, Congress isn’t getting much work done. That includes progress on the farm bill, which is up for renewal this year. We’ll get into what potential cuts to the farm bill could mean and some of the bill’s past shortcomings. Plus, a new study found that the West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt faster despite serious action on climate change. Also, we say goodbye to a record holder who was a very good boy. Here’s everything we talked about: “House Ag Dems fight farm bill cuts” from Politico “Introducing “How We Survive: The Worth of Water”’ from Marketplace “Crop insurance costs soar over time, reaching a record high in 2022″ from Environmental Working Group “Faster Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is ‘Unavoidable'” from Bloomberg “Jump scares are declining in horror movies — but the scariest remain” from The Washington Post “Bobi, world’s oldest dog ever, dies at 31 (or about 217 in dog years)” from ABC News Do you have a question that you want to ask us or a comment about something we talked about? Call us at 508-U-B-SMART or email makemesmart@marketplace.org.

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Alzheimer-Gen schützt die Gehirne von Eisvögeln beim Sturzflug +++ Schelfeis in der Westantarktis nicht mehr zu retten +++ NASA bekommt Asteroiden-Kapsel nicht auf +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Genomic signatures of convergent shifts to plunge-diving behavior in birds, nature communications biology, 24.10.2023Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century, nature climate change, 23.10.2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx Achieves Sample Mass Milestone, NASA, 20.10.20232023 Forest Declaration Assessment: Off track and falling behind, Forest Declaration Assessment, 23.10.2023Finding Argoland: reconstructing a microcontinental archipelago from the SE Asian accretionary orogen, Gondwana Research, 19.10.2023Mountain range formation and plate tectonics in the Mediterranean region integrally studied for the first time, Utrecht University, 02.09.2019Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale, nature chemistry, 23.10.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

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Today you'll learn about lab-grown meat, a world hundreds of feet below a West Antarctic glacier, and a new discovery about the mysterious behavior of ants. Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/stem-cell-meat-antarctica-cavern-and-ants-playing-deadStem Cell Meat  “Cultured Meat Produced Using Immortal Stem Cells.” by Molly Campbell. 2023.https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/cultured-meat-produced-using-immortal-stem-cells-373195“Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds.” by Oliver Milman. 2021.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study“Lab-Grown Meat's Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef.” by Amy Quinton. 2023.https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef#:~:text=Under%20that%20scenario%2C%20researchers%20found,conventional%20beef%20production%2C%20they%20calculate.“Yes, Lab-Grown Meat Is Vegan.” by Jude Whiley. 2023.https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat-vegan-ethics-environment/Antarctica Cavern“A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life.” by Douglas Fox. 2023.https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cavern-west-antarctic-glacier-life“Melting and Refreezing in an Ice Shelf Basal Channel at the Grounding Line of the Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica.” by A Whiteford, et al. 2022.https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021JF006532“The Six Moons Most Likely to Host Life in Our Solar System.” by Rebecca Boyle. 2023.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-six-moons-most-likely-to-host-life-in-our-solar-system/#:~:text=Life%20could%20flourish%20in%20half,dwarf%20planets%20Ceres%20and%20PlutoAnts Play Dead“Kangaroo Island ants 'play dead' to avoid predators.” University of South Australia. 2023.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230509122125.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,is%20a%20recorded%20world%20first.Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.

Transcript: Hey. Good morning. This is Robert at English 360. And today we talk about Glacier. Glacier as the Americans like to call it. Basically, glaciers are big bodies of ice and they hold a lot of freshwater and scientists believe that it is catastrophic if they were to melt because the sea levels we don't see new rapidly. There is an article in the news which talks about Doomsday Glacier. It says there's a Doomsday Glacier, which could raise sea level by several feet, two three feet, basically about a half meter or more.And it's trying to survive by its fingernails. Now, obviously, glaciers are not living animals. It's figurative. This glacier is on the edge. It may melt completely. And if it does, we will be in big trouble. Let's see why. Antarctica's so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level, has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, amplifying concerns over the extreme sea level rise that would accompany its potential demise.Now, this is a difficult word to pronounce. The Thwaites glacier, capable of raising sea level by several feet, is eroding along its underwater base as the planet warms. In a study published Monday in the Journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists mapped the glacier's historical retreat, hoping to learn from its past what the glaciers will likely do in the future. They found that at some point in the past two centuries, the base of the glacier dislodged from the seabed and retreated at a rate of 1.3 miles or about two kilometres per year.That's twice the rate that scientists have observed in the past decade or so. So basically this huge glacier, which is rooted to the seabed now, is starting to detach. And one basic problem is that if it detaches from the seabed, it's going to melt more quickly. That swift disintegration possibly occurred as recently as the mid-20th century, according to a study.It suggests that Thwaites has the capability to undergo a rapid retreat in the near future once it recedes past a seabed ridge that is helping to keep it in. Thwaites is really holding on to today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future, even from one year to the next.once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed. The Thwaites glacier located in West Antarctica, it's one of the widest on earth and is larger than the state of Florida. But it's just a fraction of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which holds enough ice to raise sea level by up to 16 feet or about five meters, according to NASA.As the climate crisis has accelerated, this region has been closely monitored because of its rapid melting and its capacity for widespread coastal obstruction. The Thwaites glacier itself has concerned scientists for decades. As early as 1973, researchers questioned whether it was high risk of collapse. Nearly a decade later, they found that because that glacier is grounded to seabed rather than to dry land, well, ocean currents to melt the glacier from underneath, causing it to destabilize from below.It was because of that research that scientists began calling the region around the Thwaites the weak underbelly of the West Antarctic ice sheet. In the 21st century. Researchers began documenting the Thwaites rapid retreat in an alarming series of studies. In 2001, satellite data showed the grounding line was receding by around 0.6 miles or about one kilometer per year.In 2020 scientists found evidence that warm water was indeed flowing across the base of the glacier, melting it from underneath. And in 2021, a study showed that Thwaites ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold the ice back from flowing freely into the ocean could shatter within five years. From the satellite data we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice, kind of a bit like a windscreen crack slowly spreading across the ice shelf, and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.Monday's findings, which suggest that Thwaites is capable of receding at a much faster pace than recently thought, were documented on a 20 hour mission in extreme conditions that mapped an underwater area the size of Houston, according to a new release. So there we have it. Basically this massive Armageddon of glacier or glacier like Americans like to call it is slowly melting.If it melts, catastrophe will take place literally. When glacier stored, fresh water is released to the sea and atmosphere. It brings about massive changes. It threatens agriculture, power generation and drinking water supplies. A study on New Zealand's glaciers has shown that glacier retreat closely tracks atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and as glaciers continue to melt, their loss will impact supplies of fresh water for drinking and a host of other human activities.This is how they can affect people around the world. Populous Asian countries such as China and India get much of the late summer river flow volume they rely on from glacier meltwater. In dry periods, the population of La Paz, Bolivia, relies heavily upon glacial meltwater from an ice cap. Farmers in Switzerland, Rhone Valley, have relied upon glacial meltwater to irrigate their crops for centuries by channeling it to their farms.Glacial meltwater drives, hydropower plants all around the world. Bottling companies package glacial mineral water, glacial melt water and even ice cubes made of glacial ice are in demand for specialty drinks. I mean, in essence, we rely on glaciers as a form of national water storage infrastructure. We don't have natural water. We don't have glaciers. They take on water in winter and release it evenly during warm months.But if precipitation remains the same, does it really make a difference? Yes, because glacial ice, sequesters water in a way that prevents it from evaporating readily without glaciers even if precipitation remains constant in high mountainous areas, that water will remain in liquid form, subject to peak evaporation and runoff. Whichever way you look at it, glaciers are fundamental to our survival and it is alarming that we are losing them by kilometers every year because of global warming.Big fossil fuel companies don't want you to think about this prospect of glacial melting. It goes against their profit, they would like you to use fossil fuels until they completely run out whether we are still able to live on this planet or not. It's up to us essentially to make those tough decisions. It's a very difficult prospect, but we must do our best.With this, we end it here. I hope you like this podcast. You will find a video version of it on YouTube with subtitles, and you will find the text in the description in the podcast as well. Have a nice fun and make sure you do your best to keep the climate as cool as possible. Take care for now. 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In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking to climate scientist Professor James Renwick, about the scale of the risks posed by the melting of the East and West Antarctic ice sheets due to human emissions from our relentless burning of fossil fuels. Sea-level rise is the most obvious impact that will destroy cities around the world but there are also other less obvious impacts on agriculture and population displacement that can also lead to conflict if we choose to continue to do nothing. James is based at Victoria University in New Zealand specialising in large-scale climate variations and was awarded the Prime Ministers Science prize by Jacinda Ardern in 2018. Thanks for listening to Shaping The Future. In the next episode, I will be speaking to Philosopher Rupert Read about the University of East Anglia's forthcoming Philosophy Public Lecture Series 2021: Bad News is Good News? The Upside of Down. Related article: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/international/rethink-usa/rethink-sustainability More on this podcast: https://climateseries.com/climate-change-podcast

Today's episode features Emily Schwans! Emily is a PhD candidate at Penn State working on glacier modeling in Antarctica, specifically the Thwaites Glacier. The Thwaites Glacier is part of the West Antarctic ice sheet, is sometimes referred to as the Doomsday Glacier, and is the widest glacier on earth at 80 miles! Understanding and modelling all these changes is part of what Emily works on and what we'll talk about today. But we also talk about her background, her introduction to geology, field work and modelling, and tangents about science fiction. Enjoy! --- You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM. You can find Emily Schwans on Twitter @schwantarctic. International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC): https://thwaitesglacier.org/. Book List from this episode: Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Swarm by Frank Schatzing. Recorded on 19 October 2020.

In the fourth episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Katherine Richardson, Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen and one of the world’s leading experts on climate change.Based on her research article “Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against”, they discuss the notion of climate tipping points - such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest and the West Antarctic ice sheet – and how they can cause irreversible damage to the global eco-system. Richardson also explains about feedback loops, such as the “Albedo Effect” where if snow covering areas warm up and melts, more sunlight is absorbed, and the temperature tends to increase.They conclude by discussing planetary boundaries and what humanity can learn from nature.Katherine Richardson was born in the U.S. and educated at Harvard University, but have lived and worked in Denmark since the 1980’s. Aside from her extraordinary academic work, Richardson has been a member of numerous esteemed advisory groups, including the Danish Council on Climate Change and the United Nations Expert Panel that prepared the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report.

The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly). SpaceTime with Stuart Gay Series 23 Episode 30*Best evidence yet for intermediate-sized black holes.Astronomers have their best evidence yet for the existence of intermediate-sized black holes -- a long sort after missing link in black hole observations. *A new planetary defense mission to smash an asteroidThe European Space Agency and NASA are teaming up for a mission to smash into as asteroid as part of a planetary defense test. *Solar wind is slowing beyond PlutoNew measurements by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has confirmed earlier data showing that the solar wind – the supersonic stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun – slows down the further away it gets. *First launch for the new U.S. Space ForceThe United Launch alliance has carried out its first mission for the newly constituted United States Space Force launching the sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency- or AEHF satellite aboard an Atlas V rocket. *The Science ReportClaims that some COVID-19 patients who appear to have cleared the virus may still be harbouring it.Evidence that Beijing’s coverup of COVID-19 allowed it to stockpile medical supplies from other countries.East and West Antarctic ice sheets losing mass at unprecedented rates.While they can't pick out precise numbers, animals can comprehend that more is, well, more!COVID-19 What’s in a name. This episode of SpaceTime is made possible with the help of Express VPN….rated No.1 by TechRadar. It’s all about your security online. To take up our free offer visit www.tryexpressvpn.com/space For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Get immediate access to over 180 commercial-free, double episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or if you’re not a fan of Patreon, go to Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com To receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a segment of episode #229 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Tipping Points: Cascading Climate Shifts & Nonlinear Changes Are Upon Us w/ Timothy Lenton.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWlenton Read Timothy’s article ‘Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against’ published at Nature: https://go.nature.com/2TfNQ9G To adequately comprehend global climate change and how its impacts will play out in the near and distant future, identifying how crossing tipping points in the Earth’s intersecting systems will amplify and accelerate global warming needs to be properly understood. “Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet — are of low probability and little understood. Yet evidence is mounting that these events could be more likely than was thought, have high impacts and are interconnected across different biophysical systems, potentially committing the world to long-term irreversible changes.” (https://go.nature.com/2TfNQ9G) As we approach 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial baseline temperatures, with several degrees more on the way, scientist are observing that numerous tipping points have been or very soon will be crossed. Timothy explains what these tipping points are, what impacts they will have (and are already having) on the living systems of the planet, and what he believes can still be done to avert the impacts of the ones yet to be crossed. Timothy Lenton is Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute. He has over 20 years of research experience in studying the Earth as a system, and developing and using models to understand its behavior. He is particularly interested in how life has reshaped the planet in the past, and what lessons we can draw from this as we proceed to reshape the planet now. These topics are covered in his books ‘Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction’ (OUP, 2016) and (with Andrew Watson) ’Revolutions that made the Earth’ (OUP, 2011). Tim leads the University of Exeter’s Climate Change MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which has attracted over 60,000 learners worldwide since its launch in 2014. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

In this episode, I speak with Timothy Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. We discuss his research into climate tipping points presented in the article ‘Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against’ published at Nature. To adequately comprehend global climate change and how its impacts will play out in the near and distant future, identifying various tipping points in the Earth’s intersecting systems, and how crossing them will amplify and accelerate global warming, needs to be more seriously understood. “Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet — are of low probability and little understood. Yet evidence is mounting that these events could be more likely than was thought, have high impacts and are interconnected across different biophysical systems, potentially committing the world to long-term irreversible changes.” (https://go.nature.com/2TfNQ9G) As we approach 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial baseline temperatures, with several more degrees warming on the way, scientist are observing that numerous tipping points have been, or very soon will be, crossed. Timothy explains what these tipping points are, what impacts they will have (and are already having) on the living systems of the planet (including human societies), and what he believes can still be done to avert the impacts of the ones yet to be crossed. Timothy Lenton is Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute. He has over 20 years of research experience in studying the Earth as a system, and developing and using models to understand its behavior. He is particularly interested in how life has reshaped the planet in the past, and what lessons we can draw from this as we proceed to reshape the planet now. These topics are covered in his books ‘Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction’ (OUP, 2016) and (with Andrew Watson) ’Revolutions that made the Earth’ (OUP, 2011). Tim leads the University of Exeter’s Climate Change MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which has attracted over 60,000 learners worldwide since its launch in 2014. Episode Notes: - Read Timothy’s article ‘Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against’ published at Nature: https://go.nature.com/2TfNQ9G - The song featured in this episode is “Sahara Deserts” by Paul White from the Running on a Rainy Day - Single. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Liberty Roundtable Radio Show Hour 2 – 7/22/2019 * Guest: Scott Bradley – To Preserve The Nation – FreedomsRisingSun.com. * President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will address the 110th annual national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) July 21, 2019, in Detroit, MI. * The prophet has made clear in word and deed his desire to be a bridge-builder with all peoples, faiths, cultures, and communities. * “Only the comprehension of the true Fatherhood of God can bring full appreciation of the true brotherhood of men and the true sisterhood of women,” - “That understanding inspires us with passionate desire to build bridges of cooperation instead of walls of segregation.” * Scorching Heat Is Widespread. The National Weather Service calls it a 'dangerous heatwave'. * 'Mind-Blowing' Fix for Climate Change: Billions of Trees. Scientists say a massive tree-planting initiative might be the most efficient way to stop global warming. * There are 3 trillion trees on Earth, but adding between 500 billion and 1.5 trillion more could help solve a big crisis on the horizon. * Piling billions of tons of man-made snow on top of the West Antarctic ice sheet could prevent it from melting and thus collapsing into the sea, a new study suggests. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

"I don't think anyone expected the rates of melts that we found. It's really alarming" Rob Larter is a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey who studies ice sheet history and climate change. He joins us to discuss his research as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, being on the front lines of climate change science in the Antarctic and making the connection between his work and the potential impact on human health Key Learnings 1. What it's like to be a scientist and explorer in Antartica on board a ship 2. Focusing on rapid and accelerating ice loss in West Antarctica, which is the biggest unknown in predicting sea level rise 3. The experience of watching a glacier shatter 4. The way research seasons in Antarctica work and the layering of research 5.  When he noticed a shift in rhetoric around climate change and the debate moving towards "what can we do about it" 6.  Connecting his research and the impact of sea level rise, climate change & human health 7. Wherein we take a deep dive into the Thwaites Glacier, the rate of ice loss that is occurring and have we passed the point of no return in the West Antarctic ice sheet. This is scary... 8. Waiting to get back to the glacier and what's next in his work 9. Recommended depots of information on climate change and Antarctica and our shared struggles with paywalls and PubMed hell Links Rob's British Antarctic Survey page: https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/rdla/ British Antarctic Survey: www.bac.ac.uk International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration: www.thwaitesglacier.org Twitter: @rdlarter,  @BAS_News, @GlacierThwaites    

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace, almost sixfold, over the past four decades due to warmer ocean water. The researchers predict even faster sea level rise in coming decades. The Antarctic lost 40 billion tons of melting ice from 1979 to 1989. That figure jumped to 252 billion tons lost per year beginning 2009. The bottom line is that Antarctica is losing a lot of ice and there are many vulnerable areas across the East and West Antarctic, with few signs of slowing as oceans grow warmer. The findings are the latest sign that the world could face catastrophic consequences if climate change continues. Scientists have already predicted that seas could rise nearly three feet globally by 2100 if the world does not decrease burning fossil fuels. Stay tuned next time to find out how climate change could affect your retirement funds. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

In this episode Wes talks to Helen Mallett of University of East Anglia about her research using seals to explore West Antarctic ice shelves and how climate change is having an impact and what we might be able to do to stop it Subscribe for Free: http://mostlyscience.com/ Wes Wilson @WesleyWilson Bandwidth provided by BioLegend

Hour 1: The FBI defends itself against bias allegations within the IG report, but the whole organization looks bad …President Trump lashes out at the FBI via Twitter, unleashes more fun hyperbole …Pat Gray is going on a cruise, and no, he’s not going on Vision of the Seas …300 American Catholic bishops decide that President Trump’s immigration policy is immoral – They then threaten dissenting Catholics in power with excommunication …Sarah Huckabee Sanders defends the comments made by Jeff Sessions regarding enforcing the law and the Bible …Canada’s near-monopoly on maple syrup won’t be enough to threaten American business interests …Caller describes how the price of Maine lobster isn’t actually set in Maine …Please be careful when dealing with the egos of certain stars. Hour 2: Florida officials say that a tip from a Facebook user may have helped prevent a mass shooting at Walt Disney World …Rapper sent to solitary confinement for rap that may or may not have referenced school violence …Virginia congressional candidate illegally saws through AR-15, is promptly defeated in local election …Suicide rates have risen by 30% since 2000 – This is an issue that affects us all …The fiasco aboard Vision of the Seas must have been amaz-, err horrible …Is every bad relationship now part of the #MeToo movement? …3D-printed cars are now a thing, and none of the guys will be buying one …Which Fox News personnel aren’t lap dogs for the White House? Hour 3: It’s a Beto O’Rourke update! Spoiler alert: Pat is still confident he won’t have to eat his underwear …An angry journalist with an agenda lashes out at Sarah Huckabee Sanders – Somebody get him some Flex Tape …The NFL does not have a history of allowing free speech among its players, so don’t act like the kneeling situation is an anomaly …Nancy Pelosi asks why there haven’t been uprisings over the separation of families at the Mexican border …Kim Jong Un takes heat for meeting with leaders of a country that has killed over sixty million unborn children …Caller puts Pat’s mind at ease with irrefutable evidence that Michelle Obama will not run for President …Here’s the real reason that the West Antarctic ice cap has been melting. Tune in to "Pat Gray Unleashed" weekdays from 12-3p.m. ET on TheBlaze TV! Twitter @PatUnleashed LISTEN https://omny.fm/shows/pat-gray http://www.theblaze.com/radio-shows/pat-gray-unleashed/ https://soundcloud.com/patgrayshow https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blaze-radio-network/pat-gray https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pat-gray-unleashed/id1280961263?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis takes two hours and thirty minutes out of his hectic governing and parenting schedule to pay a digital diplomatic visit to the third-world basement micronation of Expatria. His Highness and your host discuss at length the long laundry list of absurdities that go into founding and maintaining a microstate, the internecine disputes that arise between microstates (the majority of them ruled over by prepubescents), and the ecological objectives that the Grand Duke has in mind for his uninhabited Grand Duchy in the West Antarctic, a land that he has yet to visit himself, and one that he strongly discourages others from visiting, too.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea claims to have successfully tested a thermonuclear weapon, a hydrogen bomb. Tom Plant, director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at the Royal United Services Institute, talks to Adam Rutherford about how the boast might be proved by monitoring technology around the world. How will marine life respond to warming of the seas around Antarctica this century? Dramatically, according to the results of the most realistic attempt so far to warm the sea bed to temperatures predicted for the coming decades. The British Antarctic Survey installed gently heated panels at 12 metres depth off the West Antarctic coast to mimic rock surfaces and then over 9 months monitored how marine creatures colonised and grew on them. All creatures flourished on panels at 1 degree C above today's chilly waters and in fact grew astonishingly quickly on them. But a 2 degree increase saw some continue to flourish vigorously but many species fail. Experiment mastermind Lloyd Peck tells Adam what the findings may mean, and describes the extraordinary cold water diving skills that made the experiment a success. 'I contain Multitudes' is shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize this year. Its subject is the microbiome - the trillions of benign , friendly and not so friendly bacteria which inhabit our bodies and those of all other animals. For 30 years, Cambridge University zoologists have studied the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the reed warbler that rears the cheating bird's offspring. They have figured out many of the deceptions and counter-tactics adopted by the two co-evolving species. The latest revelation concerns the strange chuckling call which the female cuckoo makes after laying her egg in the warbler's nest. Jenny York describes the experiments which show that the cuckoo is mimicking a predatory sparrow hawk which distracts the warblers and makes them much more likely to not recognise her egg as something they should reject from the nest.

Professor Christina Hulbe gave her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 1st of September 2015. She talked about her work on mapping deformations in West Antarctica, and how GPS technology has changed her work. Satellite imagery of meltwater ponds has led to a clearer understanding of the creation of deep crevasses and shattering of icesheets.

Professor Christina Hulbe gave her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 1st of September 2015. She talked about her work on mapping deformations in West Antarctica, and how GPS technology has changed her work. Satellite imagery of meltwater ponds has led to a clearer understanding of the creation of deep crevasses and shattering of icesheets.

Professor Christina Hulbe gave her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 1st of September 2015. She talked about her work on mapping deformations in West Antarctica, and how GPS technology has changed her work. Satellite imagery of meltwater ponds has led to a clearer understanding of the creation of deep crevasses and shattering of icesheets.

Professor Christina Hulbe gave her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the 1st of September 2015. She talked about her work on mapping deformations in West Antarctica, and how GPS technology has changed her work. Satellite imagery of meltwater ponds has led to a clearer understanding of the creation of deep crevasses and shattering of icesheets.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff announced that he has ordered his company to reduce travel and sales programs in the US state of Indiana in protest over their religious freedom law recently passed. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10570 Scientists urge human embryo modifications must be halted, citing the risks associated with unforeseen consequences of those modifications getting passed on to future generations. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10591 Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and their allies have launched an attack against Shia Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10555 NASA has announced a plan to put a rock from an asteroid in orbit around the moon. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10577 A French prosecutor has said the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10557 A team of scientists has discovered that shelves in the West Antarctic are shrinking a lot faster than they realized. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10580 The first HIV clinic in a rural, midwestern community grappling with an abrupt HIV epidemic is set to open in Austin, Indiana — the outbreak's apparent epicenter. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10583 John F. Nash Jr. (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame) and Louis Nirenberg have been awarded the Abel Prize for lifetime achievement in mathematical research. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10593 NCAA president Mark Emmert said that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gay people. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10585 Author Bill Browder's "Red Notice", which recounts events of tax fraud and murder in Russia, is getting international political attention after being a best-seller for six straight weeks. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10589 http://infobitt.com http://www.facebook.com/groups/infobitt http://twitter.com/infobitt

更多内容请关注我们的微信：英语环球 NEWSPlus Thank you, Mr Secretary General, your excellencies, ladies and gentleman, and distinguished guests. I'm honored to be here today, I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet, as if pretending that climate change wasn't real would somehow make it go away. But I think we know better than that. Every week, we're seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here now. We know that droughts are intensifying, our oceans are warming and acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from beneath the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, increased temperatures, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community knows it, Industry and governments know it, even the United States military knows it. The chief of the US navy's Pacific command, admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat. My Friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now faces that difficult task. You can make history ... or be vilified by it. To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown BEYOND the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries, and governments around the world taking decisive, large-scale action. I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be. Because the world's scientific community has spoken, and they have given us our prognosis, if we do not act together, we will surely perish. Now is our moment for action. We need to put a pricetag on carbon emissions, and eliminate government subsidies for coal, gas, and oil companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free-market economy, they don't deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. The good news is that renewable energy is not only achievable but good economic policy. New research shows that by 2050 clean, renewable energy could supply 100% of the world's energy needs using existing technologies, and it would create millions of jobs. This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is our moral obligation – if, admittedly, a daunting one. We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species. This is the most urgent of times, and the most urgent of messages. Honoured delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living. But you do not. The people made their voices heard on Sunday around the world and the momentum will not stop. And now it's YOUR turn, the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet ... is now. I beg you to face it with courage. And honesty. Thank you.

Greenland is more vulnerable to melting than we thought, and the West Antarctic ice shelf is melting much faster and is now 'unstoppable'. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking and changing shape. The top 10 new species of 2013 have been announced. Some of them are cute. The first farm to supply insects for human consumption has opened, but faces regulatory, engineering and cultural hurdles. Jupiter's moon Ganymede has layers of ice and water beneath its surface. NASA calls it a 'moonwich' but nobody else does. An elaborate experiment shows that fruit flies need to stop and think before making decisions. Also, fruit flies have decisions to make.