Environmental News

In late August Pebble Beach hosts a vintage auto show annually. Vehicles that combine great elegance with low-efficiency conversion of fuel to motion. Fits in here, in an other-side-of-the-coin way.

 

GRACE satellite (pair) visualization of changes in global freshwater amounts:

Major shifts in global freshwater: First-of-its-kind study combines NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map where--and why--freshwater is changing around the globe -- ScienceDaily

The Nature article is free to download. It has always been difficult for me to imagine how (and how well) those sats worked.

 

GRACE things are among NASA Eyes visualizations.

NASA Eyes Visualization - Wikipedia

(with external link at page bottom)

 

When I passed through Pebble Beach a very long time ago, a major draw was a local eccentric wearing WWI German helmet with the spike on top. What was that even for?

Can't imagine Herr Pickelhaube persists.

 

Don't thank me @hill, PM me a photo of key to Moss Beach condo

And the address - no Jason Bourne here.

 

For taller fences one needs to know where IR cameras are, and bring a couple of ...

No, for all the fun residing in this can along with worms, I'd better shut this down. My enormous local credibility is far too valuable to squander.

Let's just talk about how groovy Moss Beach is.

 

I believe there is only one Astra Gnome, and it does not get to go outside and play:

 

Goes-17 may have a problem with its fridge:

Cooling failure threatens NOAA’s newest weather satellite | Science | AAAS

 

Longest Antarctic ice core yet recovered bottoms out at 800,000 years. A new site could push that back to one million:

A promising target in the quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic ice core

Stepping further back, Antarctica has been accumulating ice for 15 million. Earth having been hotter earlier. Ultimately that is the 'veil' for this type of paleo-viewing. No older ice on Earth; only older sediments.

 

Boys will be boys. Perhaps that rambunctiousness led to less boys? See speculative research published in Nature Communications:

Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago | EurekAlert! Science News

 

Great Barrier Reef has been resilient to sea-level changes [accompanied by T and CO2 changes - DAS]. Apparently less resilient to variations in sediment input:

The Great Barrier Reef may be more resilient than we thought

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0127-3

 

We have considered environmental footprints of agriculture before. Here is another:

Research reveals how the same foods create markedly different environmental impacts: And outlines a new approach to reduce them -- ScienceDaily

That appears to say what we knew. Again.

 

Salt Lake City uses light-rail platform to monitor air quality:

Salt Lake's light rail trains are air quality sleuths: It's the only transit-based air quality network in North America -- ScienceDaily

Sensor costs are decreasing. Presuming political will to improve urban air quality, much more like this will be seen in future.

 

Unrolling coal:

Analysts: Coal Generation Will Plummet More Than 70%