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As if 2020 needed anymore regrettable recognition, a new study has determined that last month was the hottest September ever, besting the previous high, which was set just last year, the New York Times reports. The Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last month topped the average for September 2019 by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Another organization known […]
Human activity has forced the world’s wildlife populations to plummet by 68 percent in the last 50 years, with human consumption being the primary culprit. This new data comes from the 2020 Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund, which evaluates population declines in over 4,392 observed species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians […]
An asteroid is set to buzz by Earth but not kill everyone, according to NASA. As you may be aware this happens on occasion. The agency put out a tweet this past Friday stating that, on September 1, asteroid 2011 ES4 will miss Earth by 45,000 miles, which is close when you consider the universe is […]
Conservationists and animal lovers were flabbergasted over the weekend thanks to one soft yellow turtle spotted strolling around eastern India. According to CNN, farmer Basudev Mahapatra found the turtle while working on Sunday in Odisha, India. Mahapatra later handed the turtle over to forest officials, who contacted conservation experts for assistance. According to experts, the turtle’s yellow […]
The world has grown much quieter as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times reports about half of the global population has been advised or ordered to self-isolate amid the public health crisis. Schools have closed, nonessential business have shut down, and an increasing number of people are staying home to avoid COVID-19 exposure. The widespread isolation has […]
As you may have noticed, it’s hard not to feel as though everything around us is quite literally fucked for the foreseeable future. And while the headlines remain focused on the continued effects of coronavirus-related fuckeries, including the recently announced diagnosis of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, 2020 has also been defined thus far by […]
Late next month a large asteroid is set to buzz past Earth but lucky for you (also me, I guess) it’s not set to hit the planet. If trajectories do change between then and now don’t bother with some “But you told us Complex…” thing because nobody’s going to be worried at that point. According […]
The Australian government has identified more than 100 animal species whose futures have been threatened by months of devastating wildfires. An expert panel made up of conservationists, ecologists, and scientists helped compile the list that was released Tuesday, about six months after the unprecedented bushfire season began. The report names the 113 species that require “urgent […]
For the first time ever astronomers have located a fast radio burst (FRB) that regularly repeats itself. Don’t know what an FRB is? Well, we’ll try our best to explain it to you. Science Alert defines them as mysterious deep space signals that are unpredictable. CNN adds that they’re millisecond-long radio wave bursts from space. They can […]
The Broom Challenge is back. People across social media are citing NASA as saying something about special gravitational forces being at work and posting videos of their brooms standing up on their own. Spoiler: That’s not the case. Okay so NASA said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own […]
