#Earth is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 405 people shared 1,917 posts with it — around 64 a day. Activity is down 11% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 23 with 88 posts.
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Western snow droughts are becoming much more common as the climate warms
Climate change has made severe snow droughts in the western United States far more common, threatening water supplies and ski seasons.
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German scientists have succeeded in converting nearly one-third of direct sunlight into hydrogen, setting an efficiency record and creating a new source of green energy
Scientists in Germany have built a compact device that converted up to 31.3 percent of incoming sunlight into chemical energy stored as hydrogen during outdoor testing. Put simply, that is almost one-third of the sunlight reaching the device. The researchers say it is the highest reported solar-to-hydrogen efficiency measured under real outdoor conditions. A big
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A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms
The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordia...
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Deadly superbug Candida auris hides inside hair follicles, where the skin’s own immune system helps it survive
Scientists discovered why a deadly hospital fungus is so hard to remove: it hides deep inside hair follicles on the skin.
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Fact-check: Kennedy says the US had the highest COVID death rate on earth
In a combative interview on CNN, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened the conversation with a throwback claim. “We had the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth,” Kennedy said. When host Dana Bash challenged him, Kennedy doubled down: “What I said was accurate. We had the highest death rate from COVID.” The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for evidence for Kennedy’s statement. The overwhelming majority of global COVID-19 deaths occurred between January 2020 and March 2023. During that period, the U.S. had the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths, over 1.1 million. In the last few years, the death toll has climbed to 1.2 million. But during the pandemic’s height, 2020 to 2023, the U.S. did not lead the world in its overall rate of death from the illness. Peru did. In its tracking of global COVID-19 cases and deaths through March 2023, Johns Hopkins University found that Peru’s population was hit hardest with a rate of 665.84 deaths per 100,000 people. The U.S.’s per capita death rate was nearly half that with 341.11 deaths per 100,000 people. That is the 14th highest rate. Bulgaria,...
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Florida seagrass vanishes every summer, then returns from hidden seeds
A resilient seagrass keeps vanishing from Florida's Indian River Lagoon each summer, then comes back from seed.
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