(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight Science Digest - Climate crisis: 'mythology becoming ecology, a slow-motion Ragnarok' [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-26 ‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire — NY Times Magazine “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says the fire scientist John Abatzoglou, who in July told me that the 8.8 million hectares on fire was “chart redefining,” then watched as the burn area doubled from there. The fire historian Stephen Pyne calls it “mythology becoming ecology” — “a slow-motion Ragnarok. x Canada's year of fires has been an unprecedented ecological event. The area burned was more than twice the modern record, more than six times recent averages, and more than seventy times 2020. Half the world's countries could fit inside the land burned. https://t.co/cxeN4zkByw — David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) October 24, 2023 Research shows that plants 'hold their breath' in smoky environments — NPR News Colorado x As wildfires increase globally, new study finds plants 'hold their breath' in smoky environments “The plants, they just shut down. They stopped doing any photosynthesis, so they stopped taking up any CO2, they stopped putting out any oxygen."https://t.co/EXkngRrjpk — Jim Baird (@JimBair62221006) October 20, 2024 Landing force reveals new form of motion-induced sound camouflage in a wild predator — E Life Sciences x 🚨Exciting new findings! We discovered that barn owls 🦉modulate their landing force to enhance hunting success by reducing sound. This novel form of acoustic camouflage links biomechanics to predation success. #Ornithology #PredatorPrey #AnimalBehavior #ScienceThread (1/8) — Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social (@PBecciu) October 14, 2024 Believe it or not, this lush landscape is Antarctica — Nature x Welcome to the Global Climate Crisis Scientists watch as mosses are rapidly turning Antarctica green Long term effect may not be good for species found only on the southern pole https://t.co/OjnvrS7DQp — Chris Nagano (@charliesaito22) October 16, 2024 Genevieve Guenther on the Language of Climate Politics — Drilled Podcast x Recommended listen: Author and climate change activist Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive) joined the @WeAreDrilled podcast to discuss her new book, The Language of Climate Politics, which digs into rhetorical devices that she says are being used to slow or block climate action.… — Carbon Brief (@CarbonBrief) October 19, 2024 Wildlife rebounds from ecological ‘crisis’ following wild horse roundups on Wind River Reservation — WyoFile x Imagine what would happen if cattle were removed from wildlands. The impact of horses is a mere fraction of what livestock are doing. Wildlife rebounds from ecological ‘crisis’ following wild horse roundups on Wind River Reservation https://t.co/URv8QQZmye — Lyle Lewis (@Race2Extinct) October 22, 2024 Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges — Nature Communications x New research finds that not only do most nation’s climate plans are overly reliant on CO2 removal, but that the entire premise of industrial carbon capture and storage is flawed.https://t.co/o3b3tWRVV6 — Tzeporah Berman (@Tzeporah) October 24, 2024 Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk? — KQED x “Basically, everyone is burning — the state is burning, the tribes are burning, the prescribed burn associations are burning. And we haven’t seen much from the federal agencies burning. And then to get this notice just seems almost laughable... @lenyaqd https://t.co/ja6IQpDlEL — Susie Kocher (@UCsierraforest) October 25, 2024 The World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire — NYT x Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study. https://t.co/HGvE3ZTHqo — NYT Science (@NYTScience) October 21, 2024 Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers — pdf x For context: the last known collapse of the AMOC was around 12,900 years ago, IE just before the last Ice Age. and while the results could be far different, it gives you an idea of the level "change" being talked about. it took 1300 years to recover — Justin Versetti (@JustinVersetti) October 22, 2024 x The letter is measured, and calls primarily for more AMOC shutdown research. But it is signed by a who’s who of the world’s most pre-eminent researchers, and they say they believe the risk has been “greatly underestimated”. Letter 👉 https://t.co/59cQRlbi2t pic.twitter.com/X7HycQKGt8 — Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) October 22, 2024 x If you don’t know what AMOC is or why its collapse would be a civilization-threatening event or what the latest scientific headlines say about AMOC, please consider this image of a scientist, held in a pain-submission grip, from a teach-in and peaceful protest yesterday Denmark. pic.twitter.com/qEGJNZM80b — Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 (@ssteingraber1) October 25, 2024 ‘Game-changer’: UC Berkeley chemists develop powder to suck carbon dioxide from the air — SF Chronicle x A team of UC Berkeley chemists have developed a yellow crystalline powder that can pull carbon dioxide from the air, a half-pound of which can absorb as much CO2 annually as a tree. “This is a game-changer,” said a UC Berkeley chemistry professor. https://t.co/FtcDJAGziD — San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) October 24, 2024 NISAR Satellite’s Radar Antenna Reflector Arrives in India — NASA x The Earth-observing #NISAR satellite is coming together 🌎 A key piece of the science hardware – its reflector – has arrived at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (@ISRO's) assembly and test facility, where it will prepare for launch in 2025. https://t.co/cICMcDQ8Ji pic.twitter.com/orWqK9WYxL — NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) October 23, 2024 Mosaic of Somatic Mutations in Earth’s Oldest Living Organism, Pando — BioRxIV x New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30 pic.twitter.com/tw1J6aHHbZ — Will Ratcliff (@wc_ratcliff) October 26, 2024 x First, what is Pando? It's a single quaking aspen that has spread to cover 106 acres (42.6 hectares) in Utah through root sprouting. While we knew it was big, both its age and how it has maintained genetic integrity over time have remained mysteries. 3/30 pic.twitter.com/rQzExDHKIA — Will Ratcliff (@wc_ratcliff) October 26, 2024 x Taking into account uncertainty in mutation detection, we estimate Pando is between 16,000-80,000 years old. Even our most conservative estimate makes it one of Earth's oldest known living organisms! 15/30 pic.twitter.com/6dsHinBhzd — Will Ratcliff (@wc_ratcliff) October 26, 2024 JWST spots the first known ‘steam world’ — Science News x The exoplanet GJ 9827d seems to be a “steam world” with an atmosphere full of water vapor. https://t.co/puxR9Q4v6i — Science News (@ScienceNews) October 26, 2024 “Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. 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