John Bird
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Ph.D. atmospheric scientist🌎, nuclear engineer☢, 📰 #antarctica
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As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:18 AM
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. They found evidence of thousands of previously undiscovered hills and ridges. bbc.com/news/article...
New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail
Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
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January 18, 2026 at 1:19 AM
A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. They found evidence of thousands of previously undiscovered hills and ridges. bbc.com/news/article...
For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 AM
For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica
Hydrothermal vents spurred by seismic activity feed vital nutrients to Antarctic microbes
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January 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica
Growing more common as climate warms, these once-rare events could ultimately accelerate ice loss
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December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
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What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
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Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Destined to melt | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Destined to melt
Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. But for how long? The Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Destined to melt | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?
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The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the COP30 UN climate change conference in Brazil. Can they all be heard?
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?
theconversation.com/the-problem-...
theconversation.com/the-problem-...
Antarctica is in extreme peril | grist.org/climate/anta...
Antarctica is in extreme peril
New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Antarctica is in extreme peril | grist.org/climate/anta...
Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization cen.acs.org/business/ino...
Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization
Existing solar industry and unique business environment enables fast, cheap scale-up
cen.acs.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization cen.acs.org/business/ino...
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Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
The strongest gravitational wave signal yet. GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana USA earlier this year.
October 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The strongest gravitational wave signal yet. GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana USA earlier this year.
A Dragonfly for Titan eos.org/features/a-d...
A Dragonfly for Titan - Eos
A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.
eos.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A Dragonfly for Titan eos.org/features/a-d...
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Scientists have detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) LIGO Hanford and Livingston Observator...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA
A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
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September 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension phys.org/news/2024-11... via
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August 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension phys.org/news/2024-11... via
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Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it www.space.com/32868-persei...
Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year.
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August 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it www.space.com/32868-persei...
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica
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August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. www.space.com/astronomy/ju...
July 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. www.space.com/astronomy/ju...
On July 9, 2025, Earth spun faster than usual, enough to make the day 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours. Add a leap day every 4 years, except: Years divisible by 100, unless they’re also divisible by 400, giving 365.2425 days/year, which is very close to the real 365.2422.
July 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
On July 9, 2025, Earth spun faster than usual, enough to make the day 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours. Add a leap day every 4 years, except: Years divisible by 100, unless they’re also divisible by 400, giving 365.2425 days/year, which is very close to the real 365.2422.
For the first time ever, MIRI on JWST discovered an exoplanet by directl imaging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk - Nature
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, a study reports evidence for a direct detection of a cold, sub-Jupiter-mass planet in the disk of the star TWA 7.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
For the first time ever, MIRI on JWST discovered an exoplanet by directl imaging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at energies >0.1 EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. arxiv.org/abs/2502.04513
June 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at energies >0.1 EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. arxiv.org/abs/2502.04513
Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager at 17.4 nanometres, viewing the Sun from a latitude 11.4° below the equator at a distance of 77 million km.
May 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager at 17.4 nanometres, viewing the Sun from a latitude 11.4° below the equator at a distance of 77 million km.
Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast phys.org/news/2025-05...
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast phys.org/news/2025-05...