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Winter solstice 2024: When does winter start?

When does winter start in 2024? Here's the science of the winter solstice, and why its the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

LiveScience

Five winter solstice practices that honor the dark time of year — and Earth's rhythms

LOS ANGELES — Once again we have entered the time of the winter solstice — when daylight is scarce and the creeping darkness seems to whisper: Slow down. Turn inward. Fortify yourself against the long, cold night ahead.

Los Angeles Times

Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature

When a hydropower dam in Argentina threatened to wipe out the hooded grebe, a bird found nowhere else on Earth, a local fishing community turned to the law for help.

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Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

The Conversation

Met Office predicts 2023 will be 'one of the hottest years on record'

Earth's average temperature has been rising for years.

Daily Record

NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander on Mars

The Independent UK

Avatar: The Way of Water – the new aliens, daddy issues and Cameron’s message – discuss with spoilers

As we take a deeper dive into Pandora’s depths will this turn out to be The Empire Strikes Back of the seven-film saga?

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36-year-study finds weird weather cycles on Jupiter

Jupiter doesn't have seasons, but it does have regular warm and cool cycles, according to 36 years of data from Voyager, Cassini, and ground-based telescopes.

Inverse

Winter solstice 2022: Everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year

Several Christmas traditions have roots in the ancient Yule festival

The Independent UK

NASA launches mission to survey Earth's water with help from Cornish company

The spacecraft will provide insights into how oceans influence climate change and how a warming world affects lakes and rivers

Birmingham Post

Strictly's Helen Skelton is 'back to earth with a bang' as she looks after kids in costume

Countryfile presenter Helen Skelton has been living her best life on Strictly since September, but she was back to mummy duties this week as she joked about her chaotic food shop with her three little ones

Daily Mirror

'This may be the last image I can send': NASA's InSight Mars lander posts emotional farewell

InSight's four-year mission is winding down as Martian dust covers the lander's solar panels, draining its power.

ABC News

As climate clock ticks, aviator races to photograph glaciers

Earth’s glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and aviator Garrett Fisher is on a mission to photograph them all before they disappear

The Independent UK

Cop15: what does the biodiversity pact mean for Australia’s land, sea and threatened species?

The pact has been likened to the Paris agreement for climate and commits countries to targets to protect and restore biodiversity

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Stronger, faster, higher: How North Korea built a fearsome missile arsenal

North Korea could hit almost anywhere on earth with a ballistic missile, analysts say, a capability it has honed alongside a wide variety of shorter-range weapons with comprehensive testing that includes a record-setting number of launches in 2022.

Bangkok Post

Organika's new scents are like 'Heaven On Earth'

This festive season Organika opens a new episode with the Book of Scents gift set from the Heaven On Earth collection.

Salon

The cynic's guide to evolution

What if life isn't calculating, but more akin to a "puppy running amok," accidentally destroying its own habitat?

The Guardian - UK

Objection by DRC sours ‘paradigm-changing’ Cop15 biodiversity deal

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s last-minute bid for additional funds was dismissed on a legal technicality

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The Independent UK

Northern Lights travel guide: where, when and how to spot them

An expert tells Lizzie Pook everything you need to know about spotting the elusive aurora borealis

The Independent UK

Winter solstice 2022: Everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year

Several Christmas traditions have roots in the ancient Yule festival

Inverse

This overlooked resource could be the key to powering a Mars colony — study

Despite the near-nil atmospheric pressure, Mars has enough wind to fall back on.

Radio France Internationale

'Last chance' deal to save world's biodiversity agreed at Cop15

An historic deal to safeguard a third of the planet by 2030 and halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems has been agreed at UN biodiversity talks in Montreal.

The Independent UK

Russia may expedite launch of next space capsule after leak

Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos says a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station doesn’t require evacuation of the crew

The Conversation

What are mud volcanoes?

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam.

Daily Record

Mystic Baba Vanga's predictions for 2023 - huge solar storm to bioweapons

If Baba Vanga's prophecies come true, we could be in for a rough new year.

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