An international team of researchers has reported what may be the first two isolated, salty, subglacial lakes found on Earth.
The water pockets — one roughly the area of Arizona’s Saguaro Lake, the other about four-fifths the size of the state’s Apache Lake — differ from 400 other subglacial pools in that they are 4-5 times as salty as Earth’s oceans.
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Finding An Alien World Half A Mile Beneath Canadian Ice
City lights drive back the night a little more each year, disrupting ecological cycles, and the switch from orange-yellow sodium lights to bluish-white LEDs might be making the problem worse.
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Artificial Light Pollution On The Rise Globally, LEDs Might Be Making It Worse
This week marks 25 years since more than 1,700 scientists, led by the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a “warning to humanity” concerning the costs of continued environmental destruction.
Now, they’ve issued another — this one signed by 15,000 scientists representing 184 countries.
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25 Years Later, Global Scientists Issue Second Warning To Humanity