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Greta and George, the best short video of 2019

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Celestial view of Earth’s atmospheric glow and the Milky Way by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2c5LBo2

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“What is it you will do with your one, wild and precious life”

Mary Oliver reads "The Summer Day" (aka "The Grasshopper")

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Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis. This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun. Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across. These new results are being published this week in the journal Nature.

Giant bubbles - space bubbles from Kapoot

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Heart-Wrenching Video: Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land

Dec. 7, 2017 - This is what climate change looks like. This starving polar bear was spotted by National geographic photographer Paul Nicklen while on an expedition in the Baffin Islands. As temperatures rise, and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet—seals. Starving, and running out of energy, they are forced to wander into human settlements for any source of food. Feeding polar bears is illegal. Without finding another source of food, this bear likely only had a few more hours to live.Click here to read Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land.

do they know it's Christmas time at all?

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Heart-Wrenching Video: Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land

Dec. 7, 2017 - This is what climate change looks like. This starving polar bear was spotted by National geographic photographer Paul Nicklen while on an expedition in the Baffin Islands. As temperatures rise, and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet—seals. Starving, and running out of energy, they are forced to wander into human settlements for any source of food. Feeding polar bears is illegal. Without finding another source of food, this bear likely only had a few more hours to live.Click here to read Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land.

do they know it's Christmas time at all?

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Shooting star

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We May Have Just Been Visited By An Interstellar Comet

“This object came from outside our solar system.” — Rob Weryk, postdoctoral researcher at University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy On October 14, 2017, what appears to be a …

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Great Barrier Reef is cooked - experts say it is too late to save it.

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/14/scientists-just-confirmed-the-great-barrier-reef-bleached_partner/

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http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/04/13/news/polar-bear-monarch-butterfly-among-517-canadian-species-international-risk-list

“The NatureServe Canada report, "On Guard For Them," finds 517 species and subspecies found in Canada to be in jeopardy — some on the verge of extinction, others just recently classified as vulnerable.”

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Climate change impacting ‘most’ species on Earth, even down to their genomes

Three recent studies point to just how broad, bizarre, and potentially devastating climate change is to life on Earth. And we’ve only seen one degree Celsius of warming so far.

Humans are changing evolution

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A Halo of Storms and Heatwaves — New Study Confirms that Global Warming is Wrecking the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream

“We came as close as one can to demonstrating a direct link between climate change and a large family of extreme recent weather events.” — Michael Mann ***** The Earth is warming,…

Timelines have an endpoint

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What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

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Coal worshippers

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Visiting Creatures in Need with Charlie Hamilton James

To see more of Charlie’s photography from around the world, follow @chamiltonjames on Instagram.

After spending several months during the course of a year in Africa shooting a story on wildlife poisoning, National Geographic photographer Charlie Hamilton James (@chamiltonjames) enjoyed his final day on assignment photographing (and cuddling) orphaned elephants. “On one level, it’s lovely, and on another level, it’s very sad. There’s a bit of a weird sort of emotional shift going on at the same time,” explains Charlie, who traveled to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (@dswt) in Kenya to see Roi, a young elephant who lost his mother to a poison dart. “Every single one of those elephants has seen some horrific trauma in its life.” Charlie offers advice to those who want to get involved on #WorldWildlifeDay but may not be traveling to Africa anytime soon: “The thing we can do is think locally,” he says. “Consider the animals on your own doorstep, and fight to protect them.”

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A page of otters for my coursework!