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They conquered our bins. Now Sydney’s cockatoos have learnt to use bubblers @angus_dalton smh.com.au/national/nsw/they…
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Note we haven’t heard as much of the usual climate denial mantra “we’ve had bushfires for centuries. This is nothing unusual” in the face of catastrophic WINTER fires feasting on massive fuel loads & fanned by 100+ kph winds
We’ve been warned for decades
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An important piece on the “hydro-climate whiplash” – a term for the phenomenon of savage seasonal swings between catastrophic rain and sapping drought – an atmosphere stoked by the burning of fossil fuels is creating.
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There's so much that's extraordinary about the LA fires. They're raging as news hit the world surpassed 1.5C of warming last year, the hottest on record, which was added to the climate stripes with a new shade of red so dark it's almost black.
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But the sponge is "thirstier" too. It's like grabbing a sponge that's 7% bigger; it can soak up more water. A "bigger" atmospheric sponge saps more water from the landscape, so drought is also amplified as well as extreme rain.
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As @Weather_West said, the planet is warming at a linear pace, but in the last decade climate impacts seem to have accelerated. "This increase in hydroclimate whiplash, via the exponentially expanding atmospheric sponge, offers a potentially compelling explanation.”
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It's our last Examine science newsletter/column for the year and what an ~extremely~ cool and beautifully written story @liammannix has for us. Check it out + sign up to the newsletter for free science reportage in your inbox next year! ☄️💎
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*bangs pots and pans together* SOUTHERLY BUSTER COMING! 🌬️
Here's why they're getting more common - but feel like they've gone on hiatus:
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Fluoro-red mosquitoes are headed for Australia to help repel dengue - and you could be hatching them.
Here's how gene engineering - inspired by DNA from coral, E.Coli, herpes, moths and fruit flies - could slash invasive mozzie numbers 🦟
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What attracts mosquitoes? How to know if you’re a magnet - thanks for this @angus_dalton @Mozziebites 😊🦟 smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-…
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he's been back for one (1) day, and @angus_dalton already has some bad news for us: Sydney’s relieving southerly buster may be running out of puff smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydn…
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If brains of political opponents are structurally different, how can we disagree well, despite disparities in grey matter? A Nobel Prize winner weighs in.
(See also: a man devouring worms, the death of the universe, and Colin Firth.) 🌌🧠
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@angus_dalton - "Then came the surprise: they realised the structure was almost identical to a plant protein that transports auxin, a hormone that helps bend stems and leaves towards sunlight to boost photosynthesis."
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A Chinese-Australian research paper testing the DNA of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been retracted over concerns about informed consent... and police involvement.
It's not the only study Australian researchers are doing in Xinjiang on minorities 🧵
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🚨 SOUND THE GIANT SEA SCORPION FOUND IN NSW KLAXON 🚨
some very cool work + a super interesting backstory here as to how @austmus palaeontologist Dr Patrick Smith uncovered this fossil 🌊🦂
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Breaking: the whale stuck in fishing tackle in Sydney Harbour appears to be FREE! smh.com.au/environment/conse…
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The world’s media has spent the past few days speculating about Imane Khelif’s sex. “I am a female,” she says.
Two key points:
1 humans exhibit a wide variety of differences in sexual development
2 long history of female athletes being subject to questions about their sex
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