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2023-09-212023-09-21

PLANTS NOISE : Plants Really Do ‘Scream’. We Just Never Heard It Until Now.

Earth Science

Date : Sept. , 2023

Source : Science Alert

A new study published this year (2023) shows that plants do “scream” when stressed. They emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing, and the intensity is proportional to the level of stress. We already knew plants could “hear” (Nature’s article, 2019).

The experimentation could record a range of ultrasonic noise in a range of 3 meters. It is not yet known what process can produce these sounds, and it is not also known if other plants can hear and respond to the “call”.

Read the Science Alert Article

Read the original article in the Cell Review

2021-10-01

Plate tectonics Revisited

Earth Sciences, Geology

Date : Mar., 2021

Source : PHYS.ORG

A team of researchers found that plate tectonics operated differently before two billion years ago and they identified a 600 million years “super-continent cycle” started some two billion years ago. These super-continents existed before the Pangea, the first super-continent discovered by scientists early last century.

Earth’s Tectonic Plates : One Billion Years Story

Earth Sciences

Date : Feb. 2021

Source : Phys.org

Earth scientists from every continent have collected and published data relative to tectonic plates movements. A compilation of all the data have enable the design of an illustration of the uninterrupted movement of the Earth’s tectonic plate over the past billion years. It shows that Antartica was once at the equator.

2021-07-012021-07-01

Life on Earth Brought by Comets?

Physics, Space Sciences

Date : Nov. 2020

Source : AAAS

In 2014, Chandra Wickramasinghe, from Buckingham Center for Astrobiology, UK, wrote a book – The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry, following Fred Hoyle’s Theory of Cosmic Panspermia. He statistically demonstrated that life cannot have emerged on earth per chance, as the mainstream materialistic scientist’s world think, but was probably brought by cosmic “travelers” like comets, asteroids,…
In a recent space project – COSIMA (COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser), hosted on the Rosetta spacecraft – discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur were already reported in previous studies. Phosphorus is the last one of the CHNOPS-elements necessary for life to emerge.

Vast Unidentified Structures Near Earth’s Core

Earth Sciences

Source : Vice

Date : June 2020

Using new AI technology – a manifold learning algorithm – a seismologist and another scientist discovered large structures of dense material lying at the boundary between Earth’s core and the lower mantle. These dense patches were located below the Pacific ocean, under Hawaii and the Marquesas Islands. They could be stretching 1,000 kilometers long in a zone 3,000 kilometers below the surface.

These are very deep and ancient structures that date back to a time before the earth had a moon. They may not be relevant to questions of human history.

Lithopanspermia : Interplanetary Transmission of Life

Biology, Earth Sciences, Space Sciences

Source : arXiv.org

Date : Feb 2020

The theory of lithopanspermia proposes the natural exchange of organisms between solar system bodies through meteorites. This has become recently an active field of researches. This paper, based on latest findings from over 62,000 meteorites found on earth (The Meteoritical Society, 2020) describes the complete process of biological organisms transport back-and-forth between the Earth and Mars.

Going Vegan

Biology, Earth Sciences, Health & Medicine

Source : NEW SCIENTIST

Date : Dec. 2019

Million of people are giving a try to a vegan diet during the month of January 2020. Researchers at the University of Oxford are running a pilot experiment to assess the value of veganism for the environmental impacts aspect. Veganism is considered better for the planet than other diets. A 2018 Science study has quantified the today’s food supply chain impact at the global scale – feeding 7.6 billion people : meat and dairy contribute about 60 percent of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emission, and provide only 18 percent of our calories. The alternative of veganism starts to gain some momentum, and some coaching is available on the Vegan Society Web Site.

2019-09-212019-09-21

Ideas about legalizing Nature’s rights

Earth Sciences

Date : March 2019

Source: SCIENCE Magazine

A group of scientists is currently discussing the possibilities to define and legalize rights for Nature, in order to counteract the destruction of the natural world. The “Rights-of-Nature” movement is seeking to promote the rights of non-human life. Some countries, like Ecuador and Bolivia, have already started this process. The aim is to render illegitimate the most destructive activities.

Environmental heavy destruction may not be new. In May 1891, Madame Blavatsky wrote in her magazine, Lucifer Vol. VIII, N° 45 : “Owing to the triumphant march and the invasion of civilization, Nature, as well as man and ethics, is sacrificed, and is fast becoming artificial. Climate are changing, and the face of the whole world will soon be altered. Under the murderous hand of the pioneers of civilization, the destruction of whole primeval forests is leading to the drying up of rivers. . . The pure air of the country is polluted with smoke, the smells of greasy railway-engines, and the sickening odors of gin, whiskey and beer.”

Meteorit Impact 12,800 years ago confirmed

Earth Science

Date: March 2019

Source: Phys.org

A major cosmic impact that occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch (12,800 years ago), causing rapid climatic changes, megafaunal extinctions, sudden human population decrease and cultural shifts and widespread wildfires (biomass burning) got additional findings from a Chilean site. According to the on-going study called the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, traces of the multiple impacts have been found in the Americas, Europe, and up to Greenland where a major crater has been recently spotted.

Our planet’s Orchestra with drums !

Earth Science

Date: February 2019

Source: Nature

New discovery has found the first direct and unambiguous observational evidence that the magnetopause (boundary layer between the magnetosphere and the surrounding plasma) vibrates in a standing wave pattern, like a drum, when hit by a strong impulse.

2019-03-252019-03-25

Meat Production affecting the eco-system

Earth Science, Health and Medicine

Date: November, 2018

Source: The Lancet

Meat production doesn’t just affect the ecosystem by production of gases, and study now question the system of production’s direct effect on global freshwater use, change in land use, and ocean acidification. A recent paper in Science claims that even the lowest-impact meat causes “much more” environmental impact than the least sustainable forms of plant and vegetable production.

Another study from the International Agency For Research On Cancer assessment has identified a “strong” link between red meat and the mechanistic evidence for carcinogenicity.

2018-12-222018-12-22

Artic Sea Ice at its Lowest Level

Earth Sciences

Date: October, 2018

Source: Universe Today

A real-time exemple of climat change impact on our planet which requires our attention (and actions)

Last United Nations Climate Change Committee (COP24) met in Poland in December 2018, and optimism seems predominant :

“Governments have adopted a robust set of guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.”

“The majority are confident that they will meet their 2020 quantified economy-wide reduction targets. For many of them, their 2020 emission levels are now expected to be lower than projected two years ago because of their climate actions.”

See the COP24 officials reports : https://unfccc.int/documents?f%5B0%5D=category%3AOfficial%20documents

Article : https://www.universetoday.com/140254/youve-got-to-watch-this-stunning-nasa-video-of-arctic-sea-ice-now-at-its-lowest-levels/#more-14025

2018-12-222018-12-22

Surprise Life Found Thriving 2,000 Feet Underground

Earth Sciences

Date: October, 2018

Source: National Geographic

Cyanobacteria were long thought to need the sun to survive. But a new study suggests otherwise and hints at fresh possibilities for life on Mars.

Article : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-cyanobacteria-photosynthesis-mars-extraterrestrial-life/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=inside_20181008::rid=19323013

2018-08-20

Paradigms in astronomy & Earth history are not absolute

Earth Sciences

Date: May, 2018

Source: https://earthnotes.blog

The evolution of technologies has enabled new discoveries in Astronomy and Earth Sciences, like Gravity Waves detection, Exoplanets discoveries, Asteroids and Comets interaction with Earth. This is leading to a change in the paradigm on which Space and Earth histories are built

Articles:

Paradigms in astronomy & Earth history are not absolute

2018-08-202018-08-20

Where Life Started on Earth

Earth Sciences

Archeology

Date: June, 2018

Source: New Scientist

Modern Science identifies Top Candidates for Life’s Crucible : land, sea, space, with one place which has all requirements for life to emerge : an hydrothermal crater lake in India. But even this has only a “just maybe” qualifier.

Articles:

The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started – New Scientist