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The new book ‘18 Miles’ takes readers on a journey through the atmosphere and the history of understanding climate and weather.

The ISS captured this massive lightning storm over China.

It seems unusual, but concrete brick production is a major contributor to climate change.

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Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil disobedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’

• East Island is located about 550 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
• In early October, the island was effectively wiped off the map when Hurricane Walaka swept through it.
• Scientists say East Island was the nesting ground for 50% of the world’s Hawaiian green sea turtles.
• It’s unclear if the island will reappear, and scientists expect future hurricanes to be stronger and wetter due to climate change.

An 11-acre island in the Pacific Ocean has vanished after Hurricane Walaka, one of the most powerful storms to sweep through the area, struck the island in early October.

Satellite photos show that East Island, located roughly 550 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, was wiped off the map during the hurricane.

Plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth’s appearance in the future.

Earth’s surface is constantly changing.

The good news: Humanity will survive climate change. The bad news: The only ones who do will be genetically modified superhumans.

China’s first Mars simulation base opened to the press on Friday in Gansu Province in the northwest of the country, providing a glimpse of the project mainly intended to popularise space among youth.

The base is located in the Gobi Desert, 40 kilometres away from the downtown area of Jinchang, a city in Gansu. The natural features, landscape and climate are being described as resembling Martian conditions.

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Governments are one of the last strongholds of an undigitized, linear sector of humanity, and they are falling behind fast. Apart from their struggle to keep up with private sector digitization, federal governments are in a crisis of trust.

At almost a 60-year low, only 18 percent of Americans reported that they could trust their government “always” or “most of the time” in a recent Pew survey. And the US is not alone. The Edelman Trust Barometer revealed last year that 41 percent of the world population distrust their nations’ governments.

In many cases, the private sector—particularly tech—is driving greater progress in regulation-targeted issues like climate change than state leaders. And as decentralized systems, digital disruption, and private sector leadership take the world by storm, traditional forms of government are beginning to fear irrelevance. However, the fight for exponential governance is not a lost battle.

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