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6 dead at a dairy in Colorado, and authorities investigating possible gas exposure

6 dead at a dairy in Colorado, and authorities investigating possible gas exposure

Six people died at a dairy on the Colorado plains from an apparent accident involving exposure to gas, authorities said Thursday. The dead are all male and Hispanic, said Jolene Weiner, chief deputy coroner for Weld County. Their identities were being withheld pending notification of the families. “We are investigating these deaths as the possible consequence of gas exposure in …

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‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? | Greenhouse gas emissions

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? | Greenhouse gas emissions

Daniel Rothman works on the top floor of the building that houses the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, a big concrete domino that overlooks the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rothman is a mathematician interested in the behaviour of complex systems, and in the Earth he has found a worthy subject. Specifically, Rothman …

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Red supergiant star expels mysteriously large cloud of gas

Red supergiant star expels mysteriously large cloud of gas

A red supergiant star has expelled the largest cloud of gas and dust ever seen in the process of being blown off one of these stellar behemoths. The vast size and intricacy of the cloud suggests that there could be a hidden group of stars that are contributing to the growth of the cloud. In a false-color image taken by …

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Circle to launch Layer 1 blockchain Arc using USDC stablecoin as native gas token – The Block

Circle to launch Layer 1 blockchain Arc using USDC stablecoin as native gas token  The Block Circle reports $658M in revenue on its stablecoin reserves in Q2  Axios Circle stock soars after quarterly revenue beats estimates in first earnings since blockbuster IPO  Yahoo Finance Circle shares rise as second-quarter revenue jumps 53% on strong stablecoin growth  CNBC Crypto Firm Circle Posts Loss in First …

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New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’

New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’

Georgina Rannard Science correspondent NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) An artist’s drawing of what the new planet might look like. Our Sun is the small dot of light between the two bright stars on the left and right. Scientists have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet in the nearest star system to our own. At four-and-a-half …

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Sea spiders discovered on the ocean floor that eat methane gas

Sea spiders discovered on the ocean floor that eat methane gas

A dull stretch of silty seafloor off Southern California hides a surprise that would fit on a pencil eraser. Here, three new sea spiders in the genus Sericosura have learned to live on the greenhouse gas methane, thanks to a cloak of bacteria that carpets their limbs. The work comes from marine biologist Shana Goffredi at Occidental College, whose team …

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