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The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft made its 3rd close flyby of planet Mercury yesterday at 4:34 p.m. ET at an altitude of 236 km. This was the 3rd of 6 gravity-assist flybys at Mercury. A flyby of earth and 2 flybys of Venus were completed in...
by AKALib
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Earth Matters: Jimmy Carter's unheralded green legacy; Antarctica, Greenland could melt 'scary' fast Jimmy Carter gets much-deserved credit for the humanitarian work he has relentlessly engaged in since leaving the presidency more than four decades ago. His single term in office is not viewed so favorably. Surveys of historians and other scholars over...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Apr 07, 2023 at 06:05 AM PDT
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We’re all rightly concerned about greenhouse gases, but another facet of a warming planet that sometimes gets overlooked is the increasing accumulation of acutely toxic forms of mercury in our environment and in the food chain. Mercury occurs naturally...
by skralyx
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on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 08:18 PM PST
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Salmon has the highest concentration of omega-3 fish oils and a very low concentration of mercury, as shown above. For mercury, this source cited FDA data from here. This number is for farmed salmon. 70% of salmon produced worldwide is farmed. Mercury...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Mní wičhóni Despite fishermen removing rotting carcasses of fish, birds, beavers, and other wildlife for weeks in the Polish section of the Oder River, the government did not inform the public until Friday, August 12, 2022. The Polish Prime Minister...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 02:17 AM PDT
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Anti-vaccine activists love to employ the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie, which is a method of stating and repeating a falsehood, then treating it as if it is self-evidently true with the goal of swaying the course of an argument....
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 02:47 PM PDT
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I know there’s a lot of anger over billionaires with vanity space programs in certain quarters, but nonetheless some things about it are worth taking note. The latest (and second) manned flight of Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin spacecraft is something I had...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Oct 13, 2021 at 10:01 AM PDT
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Under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was transformed. Once a federal agency tasked with preserving and protecting the environment, it became an industry-friendly organization primarily dedicated to destroying the...
by Dartagnan
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on Sat May 15, 2021 at 08:29 AM PDT
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Alexanna Hengy is a staffer with the Rashid for Congress campaign, an environmental activist and co-founder of the Rappahannock Climate Mobilization, and suicide prevention activist. You can find out more about Qasim’s campaign at www.rashidforva.com...
by Qasim Rashid
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on Thu Apr 23, 2020 at 11:07 AM PDT
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When is this nightmare going to end? Trump is taking advantage of our understandable distraction over the fact that we’re dying like flies and our economy is in ruins to further destroy the environment, in ways that could ALSO kill and harm Americans....
by Colorado Blue
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on Thu Apr 16, 2020 at 01:13 PM PDT
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Over 200 people including members of at least seven California Indian Tribal nations, along with some recreational anglers and environmentalists, marched on the meeting room of the Sheraton Inn in Redding on the evening of March 2, shouting “Shut It...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 05, 2020 at 05:24 PM PST
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Hopefully, many of you got a chance to watch the transit of planet Mercury across the Sun today, either directly using telescopes (weather permitting) or via some of the excellent webcasts and images on the Internet. The transit started at 7:35 a.m. ET...
by AKALib
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on Mon Nov 11, 2019 at 04:34 PM PST
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This doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it won’t be visible from North America again until 2049. On the morning of November 11, from Earth’s vantage point, Mercury will “transit” — that is, pass directly in front of — the Sun. Usually, stars and...
by skralyx
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on Sat Nov 02, 2019 at 09:01 PM PDT
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I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. — John F. Kennedy , ...
by Mark E Andersen
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on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 06:15 PM PDT
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Caltech astronomer Michael Brown lost a bet earlier this month, but he made that bet because he’s confident that the big news — finding our 9th planet — is on its way:
Brown, along with Konstantin Batygin, Fred Adams, and Juliette...
by skralyx
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on Sat May 25, 2019 at 06:27 PM PDT
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Andrew R. Wheeler, the acting administrator of the EPA, is Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed the disgraced Scott Pruitt. From Trump’s perspective, Wheeler’s a smart choice. Where Pruitt acted like a gung-ho commando who had parachuted behind enemy...
by Michael Brune
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on Thu Feb 21, 2019 at 11:32 AM PST
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With just hours to spare before the government shutdown, Trump’s EPA rushed to publicize one last major piece of regulatory action. What was so important that it warranted release before the shutdown? Surely something that would protect children and...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Jan 03, 2019 at 07:00 AM PST
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The Energy Information Administration hasn’t tallied the final two weeks of data, but it’s been clear for several weeks that 2018 was going to see a significant decline in coal consumption. The cold snap in the eastern U.S. during November provided a...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jan 02, 2019 at 12:51 PM PST
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With Donald Trump at the helm, it’s time to change the name of the Environmental Protection Agency:
The Trump administration is proposing that limits on mercury pollution from power plants are too costly to justify and no longer “appropriate and...
by Barbara Morrill
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on Fri Dec 28, 2018 at 11:21 AM PST
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The joint European/Japanese (ESA/JAXA) BepiColombo mission to Mercury lifted off at 9:45 p.m., EDT Oct 19, from Kourou, French Guiana. After a 7 year journey, the mission will deploy two science orbiters, one European and one Japanese, around Mercury....
by AKALib
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on Fri Oct 19, 2018 at 05:58 PM PDT
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