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Earth broke an all-time heat record two days in a row
Sarah Kaplan -- Washington Post
July 24, 2024
Global temperatures hit the highest levels in recorded history on Monday — breaking a record set only 24 hours earlier, according to preliminary data from Europe’s top climate monitor.
The consecutive historic days — which came on the heels of 13 straight months of unprecedented temperatures and the hottest year scientists have ever seen — are yet another worrying sign of how human-caused climate change is pushing the planet to dangerous new extremes, scientists say.
The results from the Copernicus Climate Change Service show the planet’s average temperature on July 22 was 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.87 degrees Fahrenheit) — exceeding the previous record, set on Sunday, by more than a tenth of a degree Fahrenheit.
Even before Monday’s data had been analyzed, Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said it was clear Earth was entering “uncharted territory.”
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Stanford University
July 22, 2024
Bull elephants gather in the evening coolness to drink. After a spell, a senior male lifts his head and turns from the waterhole. With ears flapping gently, he lets out a deep, resonant rumble.
One by one, the others respond, their voices overlapping in a sonorous, infrasonic chorus that whispers across the savanna. This elephant barbershop quartet conveys a clear message: It's time to move on.
Gradually, the elephants shift, their massive bodies swaying as they follow their rumbling leader to the next stop on their nocturnal wanderings.
For the first time, scientists from Stanford University and other institutions have documented male elephants using "let's go" rumbles to signal the start of group departures from the Mushara waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. The vocalizations are initiated by the most socially integrated, and often the most dominant, males in close-knit social groups.
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Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsWashington Post
July 22, 2024, at 10:01 a.m. EDT
Democrats have started rallying around Vice President Harris to take over as the party’s presidential nominee following President Biden’s abrupt exit from his reelection campaign Sunday.
Harris received a rapid flow of endorsements from top Democrats, including dozens of lawmakers, multiple governors and key groups.
She is scheduled to make a public appearance Monday morning at the White House at an event honoring championship college athletic teams.
‘Taxi for Flybmi.’ G Tipene
July 19, 2024, at 10:58 a.m. EDT
The outage was linked to problems with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing system, causing users to lose access to Office products and Windows systems more broadly.
Widely used cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike pointed to a defect in an update it had delivered for Microsoft customers, while other operating systems including Mac were unaffected.
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