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Milan Fashion Week opens with light, ethereal yet grounded looks from Fendi, Ferretti and Marni
Read full article: Milan Fashion Week opens with light, ethereal yet grounded looks from Fendi, Ferretti and MarniAs the northern hemisphere started transitioning from summer to fall, Milan Fashion Week invites fashionistas to dream about the next warm weather season.
Solar storms may cause faint auroras overnight in parts of Northern Hemisphere
Read full article: Solar storms may cause faint auroras overnight in parts of Northern HemispherePeople in Canada and northern U.S. cities including Seattle and Minneapolis may see faint auroras due to moderate solar storms.
Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice.
Read full article: Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice.Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them.
Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1
Read full article: Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years.
A look at what to expect as latest UN climate talks get under way in oil-rich UAE
Read full article: A look at what to expect as latest UN climate talks get under way in oil-rich UAEThe Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over the next two weeks, with countries hoping to agree on new ways to keep the planet from catastrophic heating by the end of the century.
California: Drought, record heat, fires and now maybe floods
Read full article: California: Drought, record heat, fires and now maybe floodsThe record-breaking heat that has pushed California's electrical grid to the breaking point for more than a week is almost over but it's a sign of things to come.
Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows
Read full article: Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows(Randall Irmis via AP)Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a delay likely caused by climate change, a new study found. A new way of calculating the dates of dinosaur fossils found in Greenland shows that the plant eaters, called sauropodomorphs, were about 215 million years old, according to a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. So far, scientists haven’t found any example of the earliest plant-eating dinosaur family in the Northern Hemisphere that’s more than 215 million years old. The plant eaters “were late comers in the Northern Hemisphere,” said study lead author Dennis Kent, of Columbia University. That highlighted the migration time gap, said several outside experts both in dinosaurs and and ancient climate.
Rare ‘Christmas Star’ to be visible for first time in 800 years on Dec. 21
Read full article: Rare ‘Christmas Star’ to be visible for first time in 800 years on Dec. 21With this year’s winter solstice comes more than just confirmation of our already-cold weather and ever-fleeting daylight: The rare “Christmas Star” will be visible for the first time in 800 years. Each year, Earth’s northern hemisphere enters the winter solstice on Dec. 21 -- the shortest day of the year -- officially marking the start of winter. This year, bright planets Jupiter and Saturn will align perfectly on Dec. 21 to create what is commonly called the Christmas Star or the “Star of Bethlehem.”According to NASA, Jupiter and Saturn align with one another every 20 years or so, but not nearly as close together as they will be in 2020. Experts say the Christmas Star can be seen by the unaided eye just after sunset on Dec. 21, 2020. You can see Saturn and Jupiter nearly align on Dec. 21, forming what appears to be a Christmas star.
Cold diggers? UN finds a record low in Greenland ice in 1991
Read full article: Cold diggers? UN finds a record low in Greenland ice in 1991GENEVA – For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere — nearly -70 degrees Celsius (-93 F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Greenland. The World Meteorological Organizations publicly confirmed Wednesday the all-time cold reading for the hemisphere: -69.6 Celsius recorded on Dec. 22, 1991 at an automatic weather station in a remote site called Klinck, not far from the highest point on the Greenland Ice Sheet. “In the era of climate change, much attention focuses on new heat records," said WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas in a statement. The new low was confirmed by so-called “climate detectives” working with the WMO's Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes in Geneva. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was the -89.2 Celsius (-128.6 F) recorded in 1983 at the high-altitude Vostok weather station in Antarctica, WMO said.
COVID-19 lockdowns blocked flu in some places but fall looms
Read full article: COVID-19 lockdowns blocked flu in some places but fall loomsOrdinarily, South Africa sees widespread influenza during the winter months, but this year almost none have been found something unprecedented. But theres no guarantee the Northern Hemisphere will avoid twin epidemics as its own flu season looms while the coronavirus still rages. This could be one of the worst seasons we've had from a public health perspective with COVID and flu coming together. The evidence: Ordinarily, South Africa sees widespread influenza during the Southern Hemisphere's winter months of May through August. In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson likewise is urging widespread flu vaccination.
5 things you may not know as the first day of fall arrives
Read full article: 5 things you may not know as the first day of fall arrives'Fall leaf' colors actually exist all year longNow, don't get too excited. Oh, fall leaf tourism brings in BIG MONEYIt's called "leaf peeping." Fall is only 'fall' to Americans, even though the term was coined in BritainWhat do you call the picking of ripe sweet potatoes, squash and pumpkins? Some time after, poets coined the phrase "the fall of leaves" -- shortened to "fall" in the 1600s. By the mid-1800s, the word "fall" had firmly rooted itself in America.