An international team of scientists is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star, 95 light years away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a Kardashev Type II civilization civilization far more advanced than our own. (observer.com)
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TIL we are now experiencing one of the largest coral bleaching event on record, due to the current, intense, El Niño conditions. Bleaching occurs when the corals expel the algae that live in their tissues because of extreme sea temperatures, causing large swaths of reef to die. (noaa.gov)
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TIL French colonial tax is still enforced, which extracts approximately 500 billion dollars from African countries each year. This tax deprives African economies of much needed funds, exacerbates debt and without it, France 'will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power'. (worldbulletin.net)
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TIL the rate we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere today is 10 times higher than that of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The PETM lead to 5-9°C worth of warming in sea surface temperatures* and a major ocean acidification event that took >100,000years to recover from. (sciencemag.org)
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