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Fortune via Yahoo Finance – and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts: “Despite concerns from debt hawks, the U.S. government is continuing to borrow at pace: For the fiscal year of 2026 so far, the federal deficit has totaled just under $1.4 trillion. The first nine months of this …
Yesterday, the sky did something. Tell us where you were [your city]. We’ll tell you what you missed. A Note On The Sky — Sources & Confessions. Every sky on this page is reconstructed from real data. The words were written by a human. A few honest footnotes follow.
The Guardian: “…despite the obvious devotion of the most renowned literary voices of the last two centuries, the “chee chew chee chew” of the nightingale, the twittering of the house martin and the voice of the song thrush are heard no more in gardens, yards and balconies across many parts of Britain. In the last …
LightningMaps.org is an additional service to the main project Blitzortung.org [A worldwide, real-time, community collaborative lightning location network.] For general questions about this project and for ordering the necessary hardware have a look at the appropriate documentation, FAQs and instructions before contacting us. Also, the discussion board is a good place for all questions and …
Heatmap – A just-released MIT paper argues that the energy transition is still largely following the trajectory laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index Global Map is an interactive map that visualises how climate change is influencing daily temperatures around the world. It displays today’s data, showing which regions are experiencing temperatures that have been made significantly more probable due to climate change….Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research …
Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 10. This article is the tenth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …
“PowerOutage.us collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available. Most states have multiple electric utilities, many small, some big. With these large numbers of companies, it can be hard to get …
Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index Global Map is an interactive map that visualises how climate change is influencing daily temperatures around the world. It displays today’s data, showing which regions are experiencing temperatures that have been made significantly more probable due to climate change.
“Our ability to forecast the rains would’ve been the envy of our agrarian ancestors. It’s given us an unprecedented ability to take advantage of good growing seasons and prepare for tough times. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have just released the latest version of one of the world’s most widely used rainfall data products, the …
Every houseplant was a wild plant first. A field guide to 114 of them, where each one is really from and how to keep it alive. Each plant sculpted in clay. Each pot from its homeland. Search: All, Low-Light; Pet safe; Pet-proof; Rare.
Gizmodo “Meteorologists simply aren’t able to gather as much data as they used to, and you’re suffering for it. Is there anything more annoying than leaving the house in shorts and flip flops, only to get caught in an unexpected downpour? The weather report is rarely spot-on, but if forecasts have seemed particularly inaccurate recently, …
