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Biology textbooks aren't keeping up

Climate change is a major threat to life on Earth — but not a major focus of biology textbooks

Salon

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ‘luckiest guys on Earth’ after Wrexham honour

The pair’s takeover of the National League side in February 2021 created headlines worldwide.

The Independent UK

Yards from passing commuters in our city - in one of the richest countries on earth - another homeless man dies

"In this day and age for people to be sleeping rough on our streets is just unacceptable"

Manchester Evening News

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Strictly’s Helen Skelton 'back to earth with a bang' as she reunites with kids

Helen Skelton made it all the way to the Strictly Come Dancing final

Leeds Live

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

The Conversation

Are we too primitive for aliens?

We think we're an advanced species — but perhaps we're babies compared to our alien peers, a new paper argues

Salon

A Fossil Proves Dinosaurs Ate Mammals Suddenly I’m Glad Jurassic Park Isn’t A Documentary

Sorry to those Cretaceous mammals I guess.

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Winter Solstice explained as rare Christmas shooting stars to zip through skies on longest night

The shortest day and longest night of the year is here, marking the start of winter. Despite the freezing conditions recently, the season is only just getting started, with a meteor shower set to light up the sky above Edinburgh tonight.

Edinburgh Live

Warmer weather, less rain on the way as La Niña wanes

La Niña will continue into summer, but there are signs of it “declining in strength” according to an update from the Bureau of Meteorology.

The New Daily

What is the Winter solstice as shortest day marked with rare Christmas shooting star

December 21 marks the shortest, and longest, day of the year. And it doesn't stop there as there's a chance to see the Ursid meteor shower - a celestial display which could see up to 10 meteors an hour.

Glasgow Live

Virgin Orbit finally granted licence for delayed UK space launch from Cornwall

The launch was due to happen in December but will now take place after Christmas

Birmingham Post

Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi review – a great mystery in the picture

Why did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer

The Guardian - UK

6.4 magnitude earthquake causes injuries, damage, power outages on Northern California coast

FERNDALE, Calif. — A large earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted the Northern California coastline near Eureka on Tuesday morning, causing violent shaking that pushed some homes from their foundations and power outages affecting tens of thousands of people.

Tribune News Service

COP15's Global Biodiversity Framework must advance Indigenous-led conservation to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Conversation

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Five ways you can help stop biodiversity loss in your area – and around the world

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow our food, cleanse our air and water and regulate our climate. Human life cannot exist without it. But around one million animal and plant species are now threatened by extinction.

LiveScience

Winter solstice 2024: When does winter start?

When does winter start in 2024? Here's the science of the winter solstice, and why its the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Los Angeles Times

Five winter solstice practices that honor the dark time of year — and Earth's rhythms

LOS ANGELES — Once again we have entered the time of the winter solstice — when daylight is scarce and the creeping darkness seems to whisper: Slow down. Turn inward. Fortify yourself against the long, cold night ahead.

The Conversation

Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature

When a hydropower dam in Argentina threatened to wipe out the hooded grebe, a bird found nowhere else on Earth, a local fishing community turned to the law for help.

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Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

Daily Record

Met Office predicts 2023 will be 'one of the hottest years on record'

Earth's average temperature has been rising for years.

The Independent UK

NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander on Mars

The Guardian - UK

Avatar: The Way of Water – the new aliens, daddy issues and Cameron’s message – discuss with spoilers

As we take a deeper dive into Pandora’s depths will this turn out to be The Empire Strikes Back of the seven-film saga?

Inverse

36-year-study finds weird weather cycles on Jupiter

Jupiter doesn't have seasons, but it does have regular warm and cool cycles, according to 36 years of data from Voyager, Cassini, and ground-based telescopes.

The Independent UK

Winter solstice 2022: Everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year

Several Christmas traditions have roots in the ancient Yule festival

Birmingham Post

NASA launches mission to survey Earth's water with help from Cornish company

The spacecraft will provide insights into how oceans influence climate change and how a warming world affects lakes and rivers

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