By Heidi Harley

science / science - 2 weeks ago

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #35 2024

Open access notables Arctic& glacier& snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades, Larocca et al.,& The& Cryosphere: We mapped the snowline (SL) on a subset of 269 land-terminating glaciers above 60° N latitude in the latest available summer, clear-sky Landsat satellite imag...

science / science - 2 weeks ago

How much of a risk is space junk?

Space junk. It might sound like an out-of-this-world problem that we don’t need to worry about here on Earth – but is it? As we send more and more metal in the form of satellites up into space, scientists are warning it is becoming more of a risk both here – and up there. We dig into the problem an...