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To Take Down Fossil Fuels, We Must Abandon Capitalism

Dahr Jamail’s latest book bears witness to the destruction of our natural world due to climate change.

Source: To Take Down Fossil Fuels, We Must Abandon Capitalism

Scientists: Climate change causing heatwaves, droughts and floods

New report shows that recent extreme weather could not have happened without warming caused by human-induced climate change.

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Ancient cataclysms and modern conflicts in origin of life studies | Uncommon Descent

Impact crater/NASAThe main topic of a recent Science article is a claim that life on Earth was jumpstarted by a very early hit by a moon-size object that precipitated a metallic hailstorm. But while sketching that scenario, which wowed a 2018 conference in Atlanta in October, Robert F. Service a

Source: Ancient cataclysms and modern conflicts in origin of life studies | Uncommon Descent

Can DNA survival change the meaning of extinction? | Uncommon Descent

Actually, it is widely suspected that the red wolf is, generally, a hybrid of wolf and coyote that appears from time to time and thus can’t go extinct unless one of the two parent groups does.

Source: Can DNA survival change the meaning of extinction? | Uncommon Descent

Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago: Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come — ScienceDaily

Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a new study. Glaciologists additionally found that the accelerated melting caused global sea levels to rise more than half an inch during that time.