James Dinneen
Environment Reporter at New Scientist
Reporting on Earth @NewScientist from NYC. Send curiosities and secrets to: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
newscientist.com | James Dinneen
A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments. But some archaeologists dispute this interpretation. The island of Rapa Nui has become central to a cautionary tale of disaster caused by unsustainable use of resources.
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newscientist.com | James Dinneen
The Trump Administration aims to cut funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by more than $1.6 billion relative to last year, according to an internal budget document obtained by New Scientist. The cuts would include the elimination of the agency’s office focused on climate and weather research. “Trump’s budget plan for NOAA is both outrageous and dangerous. They’re wholly destroying critical offices, like…
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newscientist.com | James Dinneen
I’m squinting at a diamond in the palm of my hand. As gems go, it’s nothing special: smaller than a grain of rice and full of impurities, it would fetch a poor price. But for researchers like Nester Korolev, those impurities are invaluable for the information they reveal about geological processes under way deep within Earth – all the more so given that some of them look unlike anything we have encountered before. “I hope that we will discover a new mineral,” he says.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.nl | James Dinneen
Het enorme elektriciteitsnet van China haalt zijn energie steeds meer uit wind, zon en water. Dat vergroot het risico op tekorten door slecht weer. Deze ontwikkeling zou het gebruik van kolencentrales kunnen stimuleren. Het enorme elektriciteitsnet van China draait meer op hernieuwbare energie dan dat van welk ander land dan ook. Maar het systeem is ook kwetsbaarder voor stroomtekorten door ongunstige weersomstandigheden.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | James Dinneen
Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. โWe could potentially see whether mining is starting to ramp up,โ says Jacqueline Gerson at Cornell University in New York. Most small-scale gold mining operations separate gold from ore by adding liquid mercury and then burning the mixture, releasing large amounts of mercury โ a potent neurotoxin โ into the air.
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Geologists at the American Museum of Natural History are using diamonds formed more than 600 kilometers deep to study Earth's lower mantle. Last week, I held some of these diamonds, the deepest formed objects possible to touch on the surface of the planet. https://t.co/burpsiThdr
Gold mining is the largest source of mercury pollution in the environment. We could use trees to monitor where it's happening. 🧪🌳 https://t.co/GrinQowejb
The Soviet-era draining of the Aral Sea appears to have spurred the deepest recorded effect of human activity on the solid Earth, as part of the *upper mantle* rebounds in response. 🧪🌍 https://t.co/7WipksVzmy