A investigation international community has found in the constellation Pisces a planet temperate, intermediate in size and located in the potentially habitable zone of its star, about 40 light years from the Land, As reported this Thursday by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), archipelago Spanish Atlantic. The planet has been named […]
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WHO: “If our planet were a patient, it would be admitted to the ICU”
“If our planet were a patient, it would be admitted to intensive care”warned this Thursday the general director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Nairobi before the VI Assembly of the UN for the Environment (UNEA-6). “His vital signs are alarming”said Tedros at the opening of the high-level segment of UNEA-6, […]
The ocean that hides Mimas, Saturn’s icy moon
The astronomers They compare it to the Death Star from Star Wars, but Mimas, a small moon of Saturn, harbors beneath its icy surface an unlikely liquid ocean conducive to the emergence of life, according to a study published Wednesday. Mimas thus joins the family of rare moons in the solar system that harbor liquid […]
Keys to the ‘Global Balance’, a new agreement adopted by the climate summit
Nearly 200 countries adopted climate summit of Dubai an agreement that different world leaders described as “historical” since, with nuances, it guides the world to begin to leave behind the fossil fuels. These are some of the keys to understanding the ‘Global Balance’ and what it implies: Global stocktaking The text is the first ‘Global […]
Amphibians on red alert: what their “pandemic” tells us about the health of the planet
If the amphibians are to the planet what canaries are to mines – an indicator of toxic gases when they stopped singing and/or died – the data known today indicate that it is time to take the environmental crisis very seriously: almost half of the species (41%) is on red alert. Climate change and several […]
Environmental deterioration exceeds the limits of security and justice, according to science
Science has set for the first time what are the limits of security and justice that should not be exceeded by the main indicators of environmental deterioration; and has concluded that some of those red lines have already been crossed and many of the impacts on human well-being are now unavoidable. Thus, scientists have set […]
Why should the financial sector invest in the planet’s biodiversity?
The world is experiencing a catastrophic drop in biodiversity. It is not only a environmental disasterbut it can also lead to financial ruin. What is at stake: 44 trillion dollars of economic value depend moderately or highly on nature and its related services. However, all is not lost. Since the world’s economies are so inextricably […]
The main polluting countries on the planet will cause extreme heat
Updated on 01/06/2022 01:24 pm Greenhouse gas emissions from the five most polluting emitters on the planet – China, the United States, the European Union (EU), India and Russia – will foreseeably increase the probability of reaching years of extreme heat by 2030, according to a study released in Nature. Under current climate change commitments, […]
A planet orbits the most massive pair of stars known
A planet orbits around b Centauri, the hottest and most massive two-star system that has been observed to date, as detected by the large VLT (Very Large Telescope) telescope that the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has in the Chilean desert of Atacama. Until now, some members of the scientific community started from the principle that […]