#Vitamin b12: Deficiency & Supplements Vitamin b12 is crucial to the human body which needs it to produce new DNA red blood cells proteins hormones and lipids (fats).
With more people sharing our mutual responsibility to reduce carbon footprints by shifting to plant-based meals we have reason to be hopeful for our planet's future.
and supported an estimated population of 100000 people who raised giant monuments such as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon.
#Dino-Killing Impact Remade Plant kingdom, Too The killer meteorite that extinguished the dinosaurs also torched North america's forests and plants.
See Photos of a Fossilized Forest in the Canadian Arctic Fossil records show that angiosperms of all kinds thrived before a meteorite
or asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago. That stupendous blast charred vast woodlands that had grown from Canada to New mexico.
and adding fresh water-two of the most vulnerable resources on the planet-as well as overuse of fertilisers herbicides and pesticides that damage the wider environment.
It harnesses the sun s energy to produce heat that is then used to desalinate seawater and supply freshwater to a greenhouse;
Bezos was accepting a Citation of Merit for the seafaring expedition he funded last year to recover fragments of the F-1 engines that launched giant Saturn V rockets to the moon during the Apollo era.
In addition to Bezos and LÃ pez-Alegrã a the star-studded list of guests and honorees included Spacex founder Elon musk;
Numerous new fungi related to Malassezia (a yeast that causes dandruff in humans) have been found in marine subsurface sediments in the South china sea by Chinese researchers from Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) University
Mercury is a metal that can be harmful to a baby's developing brain. Canned light tuna has less mercury
and Elaborate Hairstyles This city was constructed as a new capital of egypt by Akhenaten (reign ca. 1353-1335 B c.)a pharaoh who unleashed a religious revolution that saw the Aten a deity shaped as a sun disk assume supremacy
In Denver alone 4. 5 million square feet (41800 square meters) of warehouse space is devoted to growing pot said Kayvan Khalatbari cofounder of Denver Relief Consulting a medical
but new bulbs do a better job of mimicking the sun. The lights use less electricity
if you're a farmer they'll say with a shrug the price of being able to work some of the planet's most fertile soil
or how long has existed Earth in the solar system. And how long has the solar system and the universe itself existed?
What I'm hoping to do is use this idea of deep time to connect with these time scales through these living organisms in a way that we can have some personal connection to them to understand them in a living organic way as opposed to through complete abstraction.
or big history as sometimes people refer to it of our planet. NEA: How did these ideas lead to the Oldest Living things in the World project?
Who are some of the other artists who are working in this space that you find particularly interesting?
#I was interested particularly in his work the Last Pictures sending imagery up on a satellite to exist after Earth no longer exists.
and are credited with oxygenating the planet. That took 900 million years. Stromatolites are part biologic and part geologic comprised of living cyanobacteria bound together with nonliving sediments like silt and sand.
I also found several ties to outer space that I wasn't expecting. Those lichens from Greenland that I had mentioned earlier were sent to outer space not so long ago
and were exposed to outer-space conditions. Astrobiologists are studying the beginnings of life On earth by sending extremophiles out of Earth's atmosphere to see
if they survive and asking if they can survive re-entry. The stromatolites and the lichens got
me thinking about time and space and also philosophically where time and space start to slip
and understanding of time and space and where we get that wrong where our observation in particular is telling us something that is not correct.
I've been thinking about for a while now is the idea of dead stars. When you look in the night sky
or you're some place that actually gets dark that all the stars that you see in the sky aren't necessarily all there.
Because it's taken so long for the light to get to Earth that the star has burned already out.
considering doing is to create a light installation about dead stars using accurate scientific information to map out the dead stars in the sky
and a face in the rocky formations on Mars. In their brain-scanning study the scientists Jiangang Liu Jun Li Lu Feng Ling Li Jie Tian
When a person expects to see a face say on Mars or in a piece of toast the expectation switches on a brain region linked to processing faces.
which plants convert the sun s energy into sugars for growth and storage. In wheat like in other crops this process results in more energy-rich grains.
Rocks On earth's surface are bombarded by cosmic rays from outer space that create beryllium-10 isotopes at a steady rate.
The rate of thinning that we detected from our rock samples is comparable to the contemporary rate detected by satellites Johnson said.
A new map and website called Global Forest Watch provides the first near-real-time look at the planet's forests using a combination of satellite data
The new Global Forest Watch will update monthly at a medium resolution with data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra and Aqua satellites.
The findings confirm that natural Amazon forests help reduce global warming by lowering the planet's greenhouse gas levels the researchers said.
But over the years vegetation thins in a self-regulating process so that mature trees have enough space
in order to take advantage of the sun s energy or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
hydroponics or aeroponics and environmental controls that regulate temperature humidity and light to produce vegetables fruits and other crops year-round.
This increases efficiency not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely making more efficient use of space.
and protect the planet too. Eat less beef. That's right. If we all ate less beef we would
although others claim it was caused by a meteor impact. The Big Freeze affected not only North america but also Europe.
Madagascar s political problems have helped make lemur species the most endangered group of mammals on the planet.
They like low open spaces and enjoy sleeping in hollow trees rock crevices burrows or empty termite mounds.
After waiting for two months it was very exciting to see Zamora told Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
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#Chinchilla Facts Chinchillas are rodents that are native to the Andes mountains of northern Chile. Often kept as pets chinchillas are prized also for their luxuriously soft fur
We were trying to see how many resources we take from planet Earth in order to create what we are eating Ron Milo the study's co-principal investigator
Where oh where is the planet's missing heat? In 1999 the feverish rise in Earth's surface temperatures suddenly slowed even as greenhouse gas emissions escalated.
Small basin big effect So how does the Atlantic cool an entire planet? The likely culprit is a natural climate cycle linked to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) current Tung said.
and adventures in South american rain forests in High Moon Over the Amazon: My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night (Lantern Books:
The findings confirm that natural Amazon forests help reduce global warming by lowering the planet's greenhouse gas levels the researchers said.</
In addition to providing up-close encounters with some of the planet's most magnificent species today's zoological parks are placing a growing emphasis on conservation awareness and action.
Chances are pretty good that you will be learning about the latest crisis befalling our wildlife partners on this planet
and contribute to protecting a place that helps stabilize our planet's climate harbors one in ten known species
The purple areas on this map show places where satellites have detected formaldehyde. This chemical forms from isoprene a volatile organic compound that trees can give off
and reflect heat back into space Neufeld told Live Science. But tree pollution has its downsides too
when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.
Duncan is the head scientist for the Aura satellite which gathered the data used to make the formaldehyde map.
Satellites can't measure isoprenes but they can detect formaldehyde which forms as a result of isoprene emissions.
Taylor contributed this article to Space. com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As a night photography instructor I'm always encouraging students to integrate inspiring landscape elements in their photographs to create stunning night-sky compositions.
I made a few calculations to figure out how many shots it would take to capture the entire arc of the Milky way galaxy
Stunning Photos of Our Milky way galaxy (Gallery) I stitched this image via PTGUI and processed it through the Lightroom 5 software twice once for the sky and once for the foreground.
and the stars while I was out in the field. I processed the images again to extract as much shadow detail as possible from the tree bushes canyon walls and ground.
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#New Clues to Evolution of Flowering Forests Flowering plants are the most successful group of plants On earth.
and spread before the dino-killing meteorite smashed into Earth and reset life on the planet 65 million years ago.
In modern tropical forests sun-loving trees grab the most energy with tightly packed leaf veins
The results suggest angiosperm forests resembling today's tropical forests dominated after the meteorite impact not before.
#oethe future prosperity of Florida is linked inextricably to the sun and the sea#Shalala said at the press conference.
The heat released from the oceans bumps up the planet s average temperature in addition to the warming caused by the heat trapped by accumulating greenhouse gases in the Earth s atmosphere.
and Sun Quan who had formed an alliance. The battle was a disaster for Cao Cao
Laying siege he was concerned that the forces of Sun Quan would betray and attack him (the alliance between Liu Bei
and Sun had grown cold since the Battle of Red Cliffs). His fear was unfounded not. The Chinese historian Ssu-ma Kuang writes that Sun s general Lu Meng started plotting against him.
Yu is brave and fierce so it is difficult to match him. He already holds (Jing) province
Ssu-ma Kuang wrote that Guan aggravated the situation by seizing Sun Quan s food stores without permission to support the siege of Fancheng.
Sun plotted against Guan. He replaced the local general Lu Meng with a man whom Guan thought would pose no threat.
Sun also sent a letter to Cao Cao offering to launch a joint attack against Guan.
Cao Cao decided to publish Sun Quan s letter hoping that Guan would abandon the siege of Fancheng to fight Sun (Cao Cao wanted to have his enemies fight against each other.
Guan suddenly found himself commanding a weakened force trapped between two enemy armies those of Cao Cao and Sun Quan.
Lu Meng Sun Quan s general made Guan s situation worse by capturing the city of Jiangling
Still Guan refused offers to surrender at one point pretending to surrender to Sun Quan s troops before running away.
and it's not good for our planet. Eating processed and packaged food might be even more risky than most of us realize.
but throughout the natural systems that sustain our health and the planet. Our food system encourages food waste on a massive scale about 40 percent of the food in this country never gets eaten.
but it is sensitive to the sun. To protect it elephants will cover themselves in mud
Climate smart agriculture is a space that bears watching and perhaps even some guarded optimism is in order.
They see color like no other animal on the planet.</</p><p>In fact the 400-million-year-old visual system of the mantis shrimp works more like a satellite sensor than any other animal eye said study researcher Justin Marshall a neurobiologist at the University of Queensland
Whether Nobel laureate or geography teacher women have made significant contributions to the planet and these accomplishments should make the world proud
and even dancing in a pot one of the stars of the film Guardians of the Galaxy bizarrely blends the plant and animal kingdoms.
or a sense of their location in space Chamovitz said which is why they can tell
The famous Venus flytrap shuts its jaws rapidly by essentially growing them shut Gilroy said.
Earth's Plant life from Space in Photos Hunt added that these changes in vegetation do not coincide with any known period of climate change
After Plafker heard the Space Needle had swayed as the seismic waves raced past he called his boss in Menlo Park Calif. recommending an immediate response.
Any earthquake big enough to shake the Space Needle from Alaska must be of interest to the USGS he said.
+Original article at Live Science's Our Amazing Planet
#Origins of Inebriation Revealed In prehistoric Eurasia drugs and alcohol were reserved originally for ritual ceremonies
#My Time With Comet Lovejoy (Op-Ed) Victor Rogus is an amateur astronomer and this is the sixth in his series of exclusive Space. com posts about amateur astronomy.
He contributed this article to Space. com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. On September 7 2013 Australian Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope discovered
what would be designated comet Lovejoy. During October the comet moved into the Northern hemisphere at a time of great excitement for comets in general as the stargazing community waited for The Comet of the Century:
the sun-grazing comet ISON. My own early attempts at seeing comet ISON were disappointing at best.
Weather and ISON's dimness left me frustrated and I decided to seek better brighter game.
That period reminded me of a time long ago when the world waited for the arrival of mighty comet Hale-Bopp C/1995 O1.
Many of us looked forward to Hale-Bopp's entrance onto the cosmic stage with great anticipation
when suddenly nearly a year before its arrival it was upstaged from out of nowhere by the majestic comet Hyakutake.
Comet Hyakutake taught me just how little we humans knew about the universe around us.
I remember those days sketching a star chart showing where to look for comet Hyakutake then throwing it on the ground as
I stepped out of my pickup truck at my dark sky site in Algoma Wisc. I stood there staring at the amazing specter of Hyakutake's tail stretching across the entire darkening sky.
First attempt November 13 2013 To me comet Lovejoy seemed Heaven sent. Brightening rapidly and well placed for photography in November last year it swiftly captured my attention.
I had an opportunity like this a near naked-eye comet and clearing skies. It would be an early morning comet
but that was a small sacrifice after years waiting for conditions like those. I was using an f9 5-inch apochromatic refractor on which
I made first contact with comet Lovejoy. Slewing my telescope (moving to aim at a point in the sky) I found the comet in a 2-inch-wide-angle eyepiece one that gave
me low power but a bright field of view. The eyepiece was a gift my mom had given me for my birthday the Christmas before (yes
Second attempt November 28 2013 The passing of truly great comets is an extremely rare thing.
It is my advice to the budding astrophotographer to never miss an opportunity to spend as much time as possible with these strange visitors from the distant Oort cloud.
Third attempt November 30 2013 Due to poor weather conditions nearly two weeks had elapsed between my first and second attempt at documenting comet Lovejoy's passing.
Only two days after my last outing with the beautiful comet I had another chance.
But comet Lovejoy displayed a beautiful color a greenish glow that could not be ignored. I favor refractors
My last hours with comet Lovejoy December 12 2013 The comet's final days were in December.
I had been reading online about the comet and viewing pictures and noticed a recurring theme in comments made by amateur astronomers.
Observers stated that they had seen a strange sparking in and around the comet's tail.
Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 Spotted by Stargazers If I braved the cold as I had done so many nights before perhaps it could be done in a wide-angle photograph worth a try
The comet was rather low in the east before dawn and I realized I would have to make good use of my time if
It was Geminid meteor season and the spark might have been just that but I have found from personal experience that meteor activity is often high
when a comet is in the sky. And this small spark of a meteor was apparently close to comet Lovejoy's tail.
A few hours later I fell sound asleep dreaming that perhaps I had done what I had set out to do.
I might never know for sure but in my heart I thought maybe so. I like to think I did!
and snow and those were to be my final hours spent with this beautiful comet.
what does live on are the memories of the shimmering stars and the graceful comet with the beautiful name playing with meteors before the sunrise.
Space. com is hosting a slideshow of Rogus'images. Rogus'most recent Op-Ed was As Saturn Slips Behind the Moon.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
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#Lose weight and Boost Nutrition with This Common Grain How often do you eat rice? It could be time to add some more of this grain to your diet.
According to NASA the first living creature in space was named a rhesus monkey Albert I. His launch took place in White sands New mexico on June 11 1948.
#You May Also Like Satellite Images Reveal Scope of Massive Balkans Flooding Carbon dioxide Passes Global 400 ppm Milestone Climate Change Could Warp Rails With#Sun Kinks Cold
when the sun is high so run the sprinkler when water's more likely to stay in the soil.
because it is so difficult to reach Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland told the Earth Observatory.
and collects high-resolution imagery that satellites in orbit just can't capture. NASA's Landsat satellites which have been snapping pictures of the Earth's surface for more than 40 years now have instruments that can produce images with 49-to 98-foot (15 to 30 m) resolutions.
But forests in Landsat images look like green paint strokes. G-Liht can produce photographs at a smaller and sharper resolution:
Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Bananas are among the most widely consumed fruits on the planet and according to the U s. Department of agriculture Americans'favorite fresh fruit.
#NASA Video Captures Stunning Volcano Eruption View from Space On June 12 2009 the International Space station happened to be passing over the Sarychev Volcano
#CO2 Monitoring Could Be based'Space'in Future The measurement of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants
Using satellites to measure atmospheric concentrations of climate change-fueling carbon dioxide originating from coal-fired power plants could help verify other countries claims about their emissions of greenhouse gases helping regulators in the U s
and technology satellites may use to measure carbon emissions from CO2 sources all over the globe.
The use of satellites to measure carbon emissions is called space-based verification #and it could be a way to check the accuracy of other countries claims about how much carbon they emit.
and satellite remote sensing could eventually provide accurate data that would help make it easier to enforce international emissions regulations.#
#Scientists have had technical challenges using satellites to measure greenhouse gases because of their limited coverage area
and assess future satellite monitoring strategies#he said adding that research in using satellites to monitor atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations will flourish
when NASA launches its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite in July. The Los alamos team clearly demonstrated the value of remote sensing for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions said David Crisp the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) science lead at NASA s Jet propulsion laboratory.
One way to do this is) to collect remote sensing observations from sensors deployed on space-based platforms.
#Today sensors on the ground are more accurate at measuring greenhouse gases than satellites but the OCO-2 is expected to take the next technological leap in satellite-based greenhouse gas measurement technology he said.
For CO2 emissions to be monitored accurately from space it would take a coordinated network of satellites similar to existing weather satellites he said.
That network isn t yet being built but some countries have greenhouse gas-detecting satellites being launched within the next five years.
Beyond the demonstration of possible satellite-based greenhouse gas detection technology the Los alamos study had some surprising results about the two New mexico power plant s emissions.
The study found that 70 to 75 percent of the regional atmosphere within about 6 miles of the power plants is polluted with their emissions.
You May Also Like Carbon dioxide Passes Global 400 ppm Milestone Climate Change Could Warp Rails With#Sun Kinks Cold U s. Winter Caused By Warm Tropical Waters?
I wake up every morning with good intentions wanting to help save the planet by reducing my carbon footprint.
But are scientists like myself the ones who will save the planet? I seriously doubt it
even if she can afford organic food take the time to worry about saving the planet when she barely has enough hours each day to care for her children?
and avoid being crushed by the onus of having to save the planet? China and India saw their per capita carbon emission from fossil fuel
We should be worrying about the big picture finding solutions rather than relying on the pipe dream of simply reducing consumption to save the planet.
and the planet needs saving. It is beyond doubt that we have been ramping up the carbon in land air
and water and this is increasing temperatures on our planet. If we continue down this path there is a finite probability that irreversible changes in glaciers
since the planet has shown evidence for a pause in global warming during the last 15 years.
or returning to space. Many species surely are going extinct due to the rapid warming but others are hardier than we expected.
Our loopholes may come from finding solutions to our demands for continuing our good life without destroying the planet.
and allow future generations to dream about space travel instead of fearing the end of the world due to climate change.
The infinite potential to harness the inexhaustible energy of the sun is limited only by human imagination printable solar cells
but the planet's surface is 70 percent ocean and even a more massive ocean was discovered recently deep within the earth.
American black bear Asiatic black bear brown bear giant panda bear polar bear spectacled bear sloth bear and sun bear according to the International Association for Bear Research & Management.
Sun bears have a crescent-shaped marking on their chests that looks like a rising sun. Spectacled bears also called Andean bears get their name because of the white circular markings around the eyes.
The smallest bear is the sun bear. It grows to be 4 to 5 feet long (1. 2 to 1. 5 m)
Sun bear cubs have no hair and cannot smell or hear when they are born. Their mother will often stand upright like a human and carry their cubs in their paws or mouth according to the San diego Zoo.
Newborn sun bears are even smaller and can weigh 7 to 12 ounces (198 to 340 g). The taxonomy of bears according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system is:
The IUCN lists sun bears and sloth bears as vulnerable due to habitat loss. e
#Forest Loss and Climate: Empowering Communities Can Help (Op-Ed) Andrew Steer is the president and CEO of the World Resources Institute a global research organization that works in more than 50 countries.
Every minute of every day the planet loses an area of forest the size of 50 soccer fields.
The impact of effective forest rights in some cases can be seen from space. Satellite images of the Brazilian Amazon clearly show the difference between communities with rights to forests and those without.
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