Limiters cap amount of electricity households can use, making many appliances unusable. From a report: Josie Gagne was stumbling in the dark, sobbing while on the phone with an Enmax customer assistant, as she tried to locate the tiny orange button under the utility meter that would restore heat inside. Read more…
Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people. One of the first scientists to realise that something was wrong with the lakes was a geologist named Simon Onywere. He came to the topic by accident. Between 2010 and Read more…
Abnormally hot air has hit both of the world’s poles at once, while the extent of Arctic sea ice appears to have been historically low this winter. Temperature records were broken in Antarctica as warm air swept unusually far into the heart of the continent. Concordia station, which is high Read more…
NASA JPL announced a cosmic milestone with the confirmed discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets (planets located outside our solar system). A new batch of 65 planets joined the NASA Exoplanet Archive on Monday, triggering a celebratory mood. “It’s not just a number,” Exoplanet Archive science lead Jessie Christiansen said in Read more…
“The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal,” reports the Washington Post. “The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists.” “This event is completely Read more…
“A wild new theory suggests there may be another ‘anti-universe,’ running backward in time prior to the Big Bang,” writes Live Science, citing a new paper recently accepted for publication in the journal Annals of Physics. The idea assumes that the early universe was small, hot and dense — and Read more…
Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station last night for a six-month stay, writess the Times of London. They were wearing flight suits “in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag, in what appeared to be a daring statement against the war.” Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, the Soyuz Read more…