Digital content is on track to equal half of the Earth’s mass by 2245, according to new research. The research by Dr Melvin Vopson, a former lecturer at the University of Portsmouth’s UK, highlights the physics of creating information and the requirements for storing large amounts of digital data. “Assuming …
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A famous Swiss-American scientist of climate change has died after falling into a crevasse while conducting ice research in Greenland, authorities and reports said Wednesday. Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), was working at Ilulissat on Saturday when he was reported …
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The climate science community is mourning the loss of a pioneering climate scientist and glaciologist, Konrad Steffen. Koni, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, apparently fell to his death in a deep opening in the ice called a crevasse on Saturday while conducting research in West Greenland. …
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Antarctica is the only continent discovery so far not reached by coronavirus. Thousands of researchers travel there every year during the summer season. The region’s ice sheet is a treasure trove of climate data. One continent on Earth remains untouched by coronavirus. Antarctica. Scientists want to keep it that way, …
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Fires currently burning in the Amazon rainforest could be even more destructive than last year, but the Brazilian government denies that they even exist. On Tuesday, President Jair Bolsonaro called the fires a “lie” – because photos and videos from the region burned the forest. Fires in the Amazon for …
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