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Earth Copilot: NASA and Microsoft’s AI Tool to Democratize Earth Science Data

18 Nov 2024 11:30 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

NASA, in partnership with Microsoft, has unveiled Earth Copilot, a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) tool aimed at making Earth-related scientific data more accessible to the public. Designed to interpret and simplify NASA’s vast geospatial datasets, Earth Copilot empowers users to derive meaningful insights without requiring advanced technical expertise. This collaboration is a significant step towards … Read more

Google Doodle celebrates Earth Day with aerial photography

22 Apr 2024 9:45 AM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

Google has created a special doodle for the annual Earth Day. The company said: “The Earth Day stickers feature aerial images of Earth’s natural beauty and biodiversity, reminding us of the importance of protecting our planet for future generations.” The Google logo represents our global efforts to protect our planet’s natural beauty, biodiversity and resources … Read more

Earth’s ozone layer healing: UN

6 Nov 2018 11:27 AM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide. As a result, the upper ozone layer above the northern hemisphere should be completely repaired in the 2030s and the gaping Antarctic ozone hole should disappear in the 2060s, according to a scientific assessment … Read more

Scientists identify three causes of Earth’s spin axis drift

20 Sep 2018 4:59 AM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

A typical desk globe is designed to be a geometric sphere and to rotate smoothly when you spin it. Our actual planet is far less perfect — in both shape and in rotation. Earth is not a perfect sphere. When it rotates on its spin axis — an imaginary line that passes through the North … Read more

Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to ‘Gaia 2.0’

13 Sep 2018 11:20 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years has been given a new, innovative twist. For around half a century, the ‘Gaia’ hypothesis has provided a unique way of understanding how life has persisted on Earth. It champions the idea that living organisms … Read more

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth’s climate

6 Sep 2018 11:15 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

Millennia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise livestock. And unknowingly, they may have been fundamentally altering the climate of Earth. A study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a … Read more

Laughing gas may have helped warm early Earth and given breath to life

21 Aug 2018 9:55 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

More than an eon ago, the sun shone dimmer than it does today, but the Earth stayed warm due to a strong greenhouse gas effect, geoscience theory holds. Astronomer Carl Sagan coined this “the Faint Young Sun Paradox,” and for decades, researchers have searched for the right balance of atmospheric gases that could have kept … Read more

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