The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (notextraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic:Deadly Complex of Storms Rolls through Houston…Was Climate Change Involved?
Dear Diary. In answer to the above question, which is a tough one, I would say at least partially. A cool system aloft was interacting with above average Gulf waters:
In turn, above average Gulf, Carribean, and eastern Pacific waters are aiding to prop up a big heat dome over Mexico, which extends eastward through the Gulf into Florida (as denoted by 588+ decameter heights on the chart below):
The Caribbean is so hot. It’s contributing to the oppressive heat dome that’s been ongoing in Central America https://t.co/0twLQZhWmm
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) May 17, 2024
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024HISTORIC FLORIDA HOTTEST SPRING NIGHT AGAIN
TMIN 85 Key West NAS , 84 Hollywood and 83 MiamiRECORD ALLOVER CUBA TOO
TMIN 28.1C Punta del Este
37.9 Velasco
37.8 Santa Lucia
37.6 la QuijimaMEXICO:Crazy all time record 39.8C/104F San Luis Potosi at 1900m asl
Tomorrow ? Worse ! pic.twitter.com/YiVjMikddC
The extra energy from this heat fed into Houston’s storm complex from yesterday, probably exacerbating damage potential. More energy put into a storm complex leads to higher winds and heavier precipitation. I dread what will happen when hurricanes interact with this extra energy later this year.
That stated, strong severe storms have been ravaging North America well before the first European settlers arrived. Just exactly how much the Houston storm complex was influenced by climate change is a question that probably will never be answered given the state of attribution science. The complex did kill four people, and hundreds of thousands remain without power as of this writing.
Severe thunderstorms ripped through southeastern Texas and Louisiana Thursday, including the Houston area, and left over a million people without power.@JimCantore recaps yesterday's storms: pic.twitter.com/VfGH8BfOvm
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) May 17, 2024
Incredible video of the 80-100mph in the city of Houston. https://t.co/rhxBAbqILl
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) May 17, 2024
For more details, here is a Washington Post article:
4 killed after powerful Houston storms leave nearly 700,000 without power – The Washington Post
Meteorologists compared the wind damage to a hurricane.
ByKelsey Ables,Jason SamenowandMolly Hennessy-Fiske
UpdatedMay 17, 2024 at 11:29 a.m. EDT| PublishedMay 16, 2024 at 10:18 p.m. EDT
Deadly thunderstorms blew out skyscraper windows, downed trees and cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Houston on May 16. (Video: Julie Yoon/The Washington Post)
At least four people were killed when a violent thunderstorm complex ripped through downtown Houston and the surrounding area Thursday evening, according to the Houston mayor’s office.
Early indications suggest that fallen trees caused two of the fatalities and another was related to a crane that blew over, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told reporters.
The storm, which prompted warnings of further severe thunderstorms and tornadoes,cut power to more than 870,000 customers in the surrounding county Thursday evening.Nearly 700,000 customersin Harris County were still without power as of 8:45 a.m. Eastern time Friday.
Thursday’s winds were so fierce that they blew out skyscraper windowsand tore off part of the roof of the Hyatt Regency hotel downtown,where rain and debris were pouring into the lobby, according to initial reports on social media. Glass from blown-out windows littered city streets.
“Downtown is a mess. It’s dangerous,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said at a news conference late Thursday, urging people to stay home.
A man crosses the street as a traffic light hangs from a wire in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm in Houston on Friday. (David J. Phillip/AP)
Broken windows following the storm in Houston on Friday. (Jon Shapley/AP)
Whitmire said the storm brought 100 mph winds and left hazardous damage in its track across the city. Firefighters pulled live wires off U.S. Route 290, trees are blocking roadways, and most of the traffic lights in the city are not working, he said.
It was not immediately clear whether the damage in Houston was from a twister or straight-line winds.
Local schools will be closed Friday “due to widespread damage” across the city, the Houston Independent School Districtsaidon social media. Whitmire said he encouraged businesses to let employees work from home.
It could take 24 to 48 hours for power to return in some places, Whitmire said.
Brian Murray, Harris County’s deputy emergency management coordinator, said late Thursday that power was being restored and that there were many reports of “downed power lines in neighborhoods and across freeways.”
Transmission power lines are down in Cypress, Texas, on Thursday evening. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle/AP)
Ada Duarte takes orders using only the light of her phone after losing power at Anita’s Honduras Restaurant in Houston on Friday. (Brett Coomer/AP)
Jason Miles, a reporter for Houston television affiliate KHOU, wrote that the skyscraper damagereminded him of Hurricane Alicia, which slammed the city in 1983. Whitmire said the wind speeds were the “equivalent ofHurricane Ike,” which barreled through the region in 2008.
“The best way I can describe what happened tonight in Houston was that essentially a quick moving equivalent to a category 1 or low-end 2 storm just trucked across a large portion of a major metro area,” Matt Lanza, chief meteorologist forSpaceCityWeather.com,wroteon X.
The same storm system also prompted numerous severe thunderstorm, tornado and flash flood warnings north and east of Houston. Storms extended into southern Louisiana, where there werereportsof damage including downed trees and power lines from Lafayette to New Orleans, wherewinds gusted over 80 mph. A confirmed tornado struck near Convent, La., about 45 miles west of New Orleans, which toppled trees and power lines.
More than 130,000 customers were without power in Louisiana on Friday morning,according to online tracker PowerOutage.
As the violent storm approached Houston, the National Weather Service issued a dire severe-thunderstorm warning that predicted “destructive winds” of 80 mph. Doppler radar estimated thatwinds just above the ground may have surpassed 100 mph.
“Winds tend to be stronger with height — at the highest floors of the skyscrapers in #Houston’s business districts, the wind gusts exceeded 100 mph and may have been as high as 120 mph,” Craig Ceecee, a meteorologist who specializes in severe storms,wrote on X.
Timelapse of an intense tornado warned storm moving into downtown Houston, Texas this evening. Watch as the skyline disappears as blinding rain and destructive winds move in. Video courtesy of @EarthCam. #TXwx pic.twitter.com/3lSUt87LTD
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx) May 16, 2024
West of Houston, images emerged ofpower transmitterstoppled andon their sides.
Forecasters had warned for days that dangerous storms would affect Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, but the primary concern was flooding. The Weather Service issueda rare “high risk” alert for excessive rainfall for parts of the area.
While the agency received dozens of reports of flooding between Dallas and New Orleans, the intense thunderstorms that raked the Houston area will probably end up as the most damaging and costly aspect of the storm.
The Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center received more than 100 reports of damaging winds, including a number of gusts over 80 mph, throughout Texas and southern Louisiana on Thursday.
Workers pause to look at a building with broken glass windows after the storm on Thursday. (David J. Phillip/AP)
A car crushed by fallen bricks from a building wall in Houston on Thursday. (David J. Phillip/AP)
The severe storms formed along a front that stalled on the northern Gulf Coast. Warm, humid air surging north out of the Gulf of Mexico collided with cooler, drier air north of the front, inciting the storm formation. This steamy air also spread over South Florida,setting numerous records.
A few additional intense storms are probable Friday across parts of the Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta along the same front that brought Thursday’s severe weather.
A Level 2 out of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms has been drawn by the Storm Prediction Center for southeast Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge; southern Mississippi including Gulfport; southern Alabama, including Mobile; southwest Georgia; and the Florida Panhandle.
The main concern will be for strong to locally damaging gusts of 50-60 mph and hail to quarter size, though an isolated tornado can’t be ruled out. Friday’s setup is a bit more removed from high-altitude jet stream energy, meaning there won’t be as much support for significant straight-line winds like those that slammed Houston on Thursday.
Waves of heavy rain will also accompany storms riding along the slow-moving front. That’s why a flood watch remains in effect for southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
Additional strong to severe storms are possible across the Southeast on Saturday before the front finally shifts into the Atlantic.
Matthew Cappucci and Helier Cheung contributed to this report.
ByKelsey Ables Kelsey Ables is a reporter at The Washington Post’s Seoul hub, where she covers breaking news in the United States and across the world. She was previously on the Features desk, where she wrote about art, architecture and pop culture.Twitter
ByJason Samenow Jason Samenow is The Washington Post’s weather editor and Capital Weather Gang’s chief meteorologist. He earned a master’s degree in atmospheric science and spent 10 years as a climate change science analyst for the U.S. government. He holds the Digital Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association.Twitter
ByMolly Hennessy-Fiske Molly Hennessy-Fiske joined The Post in 2022 as a national reporter based in Texas covering breaking news and red states.Twitter
More:
Thursday’s derecho-like windstorm is a potent reminder that (a) hurricane season is nearly upon us, and (b) Texas is especially vulnerable. @CC_Yale https://t.co/p2AH3YEn4l
— Bob Henson (@bhensonweather) May 17, 2024
When patterns get stuck – like this heat ridge over Central America – storms tend to ride the periphery over and over again. In the case of Texas, in between Lufkin and Houston, a bullseye of rain of up to 35" has piled up. That's about 70% of that areas yearly rainfall. https://t.co/kUtEX2cZQu pic.twitter.com/opJ5SMZh7g
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) May 18, 2024
Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 16, 2024[1/2]AMERICAS record heat allover:
FRENCH GUIANA monthly records again
34.5 St Georges
33.8 Cayenne AP
MARTINIQUE MAY HOTTEST NIGHT:Tmin 28.1 Lamentin APMEXICO 45.0 Becanchen YUCATAN HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY
GUATEMALA:Tmin 20.0 Guatemala City 1500m HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY https://t.co/8Fz9NQ5QYQ
Extreme contrasts in Europe & Mediterranean
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 16, 2024
Up to 28.3 in NORWAY with a monthly record broken:22.7 Sula Fjord
Very cold in The West and the East and brutal heat in North Africa.
In LIBYA coast 45.7 Sirte,44.2 Misurata
MINIMUMS up to 33C in TUNISIA
Heat going to Greek Islands next pic.twitter.com/71OzGhivB9
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024The heat is persistent also in SE Asia.
Record hot nights today:
MINIMUM 29.2 Roxas PHILIPPINES
28.5 Kudat MALAYSIASpoiler: A HISTORIC heat wave is about kicking off in NW India and Pakistan.
Delhi might attack its all time high temperatures which was set in May 1944 https://t.co/lcIn6HqfKX
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024EXCEPTIONAL HEAT: 44C in NORTHERN CHINA AND 37c IN MONGOLIA
MONGOLIA HIGHLANDS TODAY >1000m asl
36.8 Khovsgol
36.3 Zamyn Uud
36.0 Khanbogd
35.4 Sainshand
34.8 BayantooraiIn CHINA 43.8C at Aidinghu and it can get worse: 45C coming in the weekend. pic.twitter.com/bgUJP7AGjK
Exceptional heat wave in MYANMAR
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024
A dozen stations yesterday were >45c !
Several records fell: *=all time
45.3 Tada U *
45.2 Sagaing
45.0 Aunglan *
45.0 Shwebo
45.0 Taungdwingyi *
44.2 Kyaukse *
43.0 Homalin
39.7 Phyarpon * pic.twitter.com/lY6EiCeXrz
ENDLESS SUMMER IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 16, 2024
What Southern Africa is living is just incredible
35/40C every day even on coastal and highlands few weeks from winter
Today 39.2 Luderitz and 38.6 Walvis Bay NAMIBIA
37.7 Vioolsdrif SOUTH AFRICA
This eternal summer seems never ending pic.twitter.com/k4NkETl1cn
Here is some more April 2024 climatology (Prior reports are listed on older daily diary blogs for each calendar day.):
April 2024 in #Mexico had an average temperature of 23.2C, +0.9C above normal and was the 3rd hottest April on record. Extremely hot in the East up to +3C and cooler in the NW up to -2C .
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024
Severe droughts persist in several areas of the country.
Map by SMN/Conagua. pic.twitter.com/QLQqrDnSzq
April 2024 in #Colombia was another record hot month with temperature anomalies generally between +1C and +2C above average and widespread records broken (left map).
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024
Rainfalls were above normal in the West and below in the East (right map)
Maps are courtesy of IDEAM pic.twitter.com/pxsIjHo3Kz
April 2024 in #Bolivia was another record hot month:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 17, 2024
with temperature anomalis generally between +2C and +3C above normal
Records broken
22.6 El Alto,25.2 Oruro AP,24.1 Oruro City,27.0 Potosi,36.0 Chimore,28.1 Sucre,36.5 Cobija,38.9 San Jose,38.4 Puerto Suarez.
Graphs by Senamhi pic.twitter.com/Y2S7yM2Ksj
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) May 16, 2024April sea surface temperature anomalies over the last 100 years through 2024… The El Niño signature is fading away this year, as seasonal forecast models continue to predict the onset of La Niña conditions toward fall.
Data from ERSSTv5 at https://t.co/V8F2Mhb8Iw pic.twitter.com/xPbqLYwH47
Here is More Climate News from Friday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)
427.21 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 15-May-2024 https://t.co/kUgI1WtcZU
— Keeling_Curve (@Keeling_curve) May 16, 2024
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report https://t.co/xXviMMPhz8
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) May 17, 2024
— Greenpeace International (@Greenpeace) May 17, 2024The tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul Brazil continues to have devastating impacts on the communities there 💔
📢 Governments and industries must #ActOnClimate urgently. Learn more >> https://t.co/vapy7oLORT
📷 Tuane Fernandes/Greenpeace pic.twitter.com/OF7oxkroFt
In 1982 Exxon's model predicted future CO2 and temp incredibly well. In fact most models have done very well at predicting avg global temp. But there's a very myth that our climate models can't be trusted. I address this + more in today's Climate Classroom https://t.co/Pc8RtO431m pic.twitter.com/HJ8VZHg3DF
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) May 17, 2024
The Tropics are crazy hot as all-time record heat continues. These temperatures should start going down … any day now. pic.twitter.com/JCLmyaPznM
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) May 17, 2024
"Almost the entire state – an area larger than the UK – is currently affected by unprecedented floods."https://t.co/PCHXX35R8w
— Extinction Rebellion Global (@ExtinctionR) May 17, 2024
— Climate Watcher 🔥 (@pmagn) May 17, 2024James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050
predicts rate of warming will double from the observed 0.18C per decade from 1970 to 2010, to at ~0.27C+ per decade since 2010https://t.co/uvKrmZolDZ
IPCC Global warming projections up to 7.8°C by 2100 (AR5) 2°C by 2050 now certain Many big amplifying feedbacks triggered. Future written off by uncertainties, that are certain. Risk alone requires responding to 5°C. https://t.co/4JSIsq6dbi #climatechange #globalwarming pic.twitter.com/KJnWOi1b7R
— Peter D Carter (@PCarterClimate) May 17, 2024
Nearly 63% of the world's coral is suffering from 'crazy' hot ocean water in a global bleaching event that is nearing record levels. World oceans have now set heat records 13 months in a row. One scientist: We're watching an ecosystem die in our lifetime https://t.co/blVd5aSGUv
— @borenbears (@borenbears) May 16, 2024
“This is a new norm. This is real. We're going to have to have an attitude adjustment here. We're going to have to start dealing with the fact now that we're going to have air quality alerts more often.” https://t.co/CBLoubO2Tj
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) May 17, 2024
"It's really fundamentally a problem of changing conditions, not changing ignitions." @hausfath on the role of climate change in the 'zombie' fires reigniting in Canada after a record-setting year for fire and heat pic.twitter.com/y2iQeYuW3o
— Kim Brunhuber (@kimbrunhuber) May 17, 2024
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) May 16, 2024The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations: https://t.co/KGF1N8eRDt
No War, No Warming. #ActOnClimate#climate #ceasefirenow pic.twitter.com/2rB7uAn7V0
Earth is shifting into a La Niña period, changing climate patterns all around the globe https://t.co/BCLvnRqEyb
— Scientific American (@sciam) May 17, 2024
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) May 17, 2024Pope Francis:
“Orderly progress [on climate] is being held back by the greedy pursuit of short-term gains by polluting industries and by the spread of disinformation, which generates confusion and obstructs collective efforts for a change in course.”https://t.co/OzetH2H0ty
Why we have plastic in our blood, PFAS even in the rain. It is why nothing was done about the climate because the natural world plays no role in the place where market capitalism rules and grotesque inequality abounds in a mafia economy.#ClimateCrisis https://t.co/sYi1Ho7wV8 pic.twitter.com/ttnXuomMBQ
— Sophie Gabrielle (@CodeRedEarth) May 16, 2024
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 17, 2024🔥 5 Just Stop Oil Supporters NOT GUILTY
🦺 Darcy, Sean, Paul, Chrissy and Julie have been acquitted of Wilful Obstruction of the Highway after they were arrested for slow marching down Whitehall last November.
⚖️ Deputy District Judge Brown ruled there was no evidence of… pic.twitter.com/o0N4VlcGUF
There's no shortage of oil. There's a shortage of wanting to stop exploit it. https://t.co/DiDsPNaEDY
— Extinction Rebellion Global (@ExtinctionR) May 15, 2024
More from the Weather Department:
Yesterday evening's wind event determined to be a Derecho.
— Jacqui Jeras (@JacquiJerasTV) May 17, 2024
"NWS – Houston – Hayley AdamsNWS – Houston – Hayley Adams 4:02 PM
After collaboration with SPC and other offices, we have determined that this was a Derecho event based on the path length and intensity." pic.twitter.com/9kEyVCjSNE
More upper Gulf storms on the way. New batch later today… with another batch overnight into Saturday that spreads to the east coast. Multiple rounds seems to be the trend the past few weeks for many. Latest SPC maps here. https://t.co/Hk3pbO7x8H pic.twitter.com/4AupMjLpRL
— Mike's Weather Page (@tropicalupdate) May 17, 2024
Another upper Gulf round of storms early Saturday AM might be possible. 7am CDT here moving east. Starts over lower LA past midnight tonight. Keeping an eye on this for big winds. Warm air and dewpoints return with plenty of CAPE. https://t.co/Hk3pbO7x8H pic.twitter.com/5EqB9oYgpf
— Mike's Weather Page (@tropicalupdate) May 17, 2024
Downtown Houston this morning: the damage photos you’ve seen are real, but they’re not typical. pic.twitter.com/NHGydFCd1R
— Christof Spieler (@christofspieler) May 17, 2024
— Live Storm Chasers (@LiveStormChaser) May 17, 2024Intense moments for those sitting in their vehicle as destructive winds clocking in at 80+ mph blew out the windows of skyscrapers in Houston, Texas yesterday and blowing all sorts of debris around!
LSC Viewer: Shanna Gonzales pic.twitter.com/IiVGIxPwxK
A tornado-warned storm hammered Houston Thursday evening, knocking out power to nearly a million people and killing at least four. pic.twitter.com/SI2Eh1Uda8
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) May 17, 2024
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) May 17, 2024Your 'moment of doom' for May 17, 2024 ~ The long goodbye.
"…the biggest concern is permafrost competing with human-driven carbon emissions like CO2. This could drive global warming to unspeakable levels."https://t.co/Jqu0iqQ0ZD
I wonder when the penny drops that what is happening to the planet may very well end us sooner than people think. This is just the beginning. #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/dqgmNE6h2I
— Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 (@MrMatthewTodd) May 16, 2024
— Disaster News (@Top_Disaster) May 17, 2024Major floods at the street due to rainfalls in Bouzonville of the Moselle, France 🇫🇷 (17.05.2024)
Video: Meteo Express
TELEGRAM JOIN 👉 https://t.co/9cTkji5aZq pic.twitter.com/ntR4zdw59L
Today’s News on Sustainable Energy, Traditional Polluting Energy from Fossil Fuel, and the Green Revolution:
"Journalists now know that Big Oil has a playbook, and it’s our responsibility to study it and factor that into our coverage." 🔥 @mollytaft @WeAreDrilled https://t.co/iKtWjbHrMS
— Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell) May 16, 2024
Federal officials have decided to end new coal leasing on public lands in the Powder River Basin, in Montana and Wyoming. Will only last if Biden beats Trump in November, though: https://t.co/HK9txP5oiA via @DBleizeffer
— Sammy Roth (@Sammy_Roth) May 16, 2024
— John Raymond Hanger (@johnrhanger) May 17, 2024Good morning with good news: Renewables could generate 40% of global electricity as soon as 2028 (up from 30% in 2023)!
China's Q1 2024 wind & solar additions jumped 40%, after China installed ~300 GW of W&S in 2023.
The chart below of global RE additions is likely low! pic.twitter.com/eGm3ILfyLE
— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) May 17, 2024Another record shattered
Thur, May 16, California's main grid batteries supplied 7.528 GW at 7:40 PM, blowing past 7.196 GW from May 7 and 2.14 x the 3.518 GW from just 1 year ago
Also the 33rd day straight & 62nd of 70 that #WindWaterSolar supply exceeded demand for a period pic.twitter.com/yvIkzATlCG
— Dr Paul Dorfman (@dorfman_p) May 17, 2024Thing is, you can't protect civil nuclear from a concerted military attack.
Nuclear risk in an increasingly unstable world …
'Dangerous Targets: Civilian #Nuclear Infrastructure and the War in #Ukraine.'https://t.co/wzGWrLWRuW
More on the Environment and Nature:
— GlacierHub (@GlacierHub) May 17, 2024Shrinking #glaciers could expose thousands of miles of new habitat for #salmon in #Alaska and #BritishColumbia, but #mining laws and practices could end this hope before it even begins.
Read the full story here: https://t.co/O5wIQp7Uin
— Carbon Brief (@CarbonBrief) May 17, 2024COP16: Tracking country pledges on tackling biodiversity loss | @daisydunnesci @_AN_Patel @YanineQuiroz Alice Vernat-Davies
Read here ➡️ https://t.co/gDEehYE4no pic.twitter.com/Ujs5qvoFH1
— Blue Planet Society (@Seasaver) May 17, 2024Is Japan's decision to expand whaling a message to show it will not bow to pressure to further regulate commercial catch of at-risk species, e.g. bluefin tuna?
Japan consumes 80% of Atlantic/Pacific bluefin tuna & is second biggest tuna fishing nation. https://t.co/EOHL9ZyECr
— Jim Baird (@JimBair62221006) May 17, 2024Study finds microplastics in canine & human testes-
“I doubted whether microplastics could penetrate the reproductive system. When I first received the results for dogs I was surprised. I was even more surprised when I received the results for humans.”https://t.co/LBgLpvqpz4
High levels of weedkiller found in more than half sperm samples, study finds https://t.co/wQSsWLlaKo
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) May 17, 2024
— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) May 17, 2024‘Pesticides by stealth’: garden soil conditioners killing worms, experts fear
Even products marketed as ‘organic’ may be toxic, say campaigners, with risks for the wider ecosystem https://t.co/u5gRbr7OZN
— Defenders of Wildlife (@Defenders) May 15, 2024Building a major highway through a national conservation rea in southwest Utah would increase the spread of noxious weeds, spark more wildfires and increase the risk to Mojave desert tortoises and other endangered species.
Read more. https://t.co/so3XMGlChm
— Yale Environment 360 (@YaleE360) May 17, 2024Gone from Romania for 200 years, European bison were recently restored to the southern Carpathians.
A new study finds that, by reshaping the landscape, the bison are locking away thousands of tons of carbon.
Read more @YaleE360: https://t.co/Pd4Niy1zb0 pic.twitter.com/hJfF9Lr4jD
More on Other Science and the Beauty of Earth and this Universe:
Night lights over Whistler, BC … 800 frames over 800 seconds @GoWhistler @TamithaSkov @NikonCanada pic.twitter.com/7k9nGOM82v
— David McColm (@davidlmccolm) May 17, 2024
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 17, 2024Nikola Tesla describing a cell phone in an interview conducted by journalist John B. Kennedy and published in a Jan. 30, 1926, article in Collier's magazine
[read more: https://t.co/a2J8KeIXjJ] pic.twitter.com/bMlhmNd161
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 16, 2024Chlorophyll and Hemoglobin
The major difference is that plant blood carries a Magnesium (Mg) molecule where our blood contains a Iron (Fe) molecule.
Magnesium is what is responsible for making plant blood green, and iron is what makes our blood red. pic.twitter.com/eDFan8eE89
It does not always need scientific proof that something is good for us. Just follow nature's invitation, sit down and experience in your own body how good it is, the forest will convince you.💚🌿☘️🌱🌲🌳🍀💚 pic.twitter.com/w1FkzAzmEl
— Green is a mission (@Greenisamissio1) May 17, 2024
