- Last Sunday was Earth's hottest day in recorded history https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/last-sunday-was-earths-hottest-day-in-recorded-history 21 comments worldnews
- Biden's Earth Day breakthrough: The best week for climate policy in recent history https://www.salon.com/2021/04/29/bidens-earth-day-breakthrough-the-best-week-for-climate-policy-in-recent-history/ 4 comments politics
- The Earth has just experienced its warmest day in recent history, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service https://climate.copernicus.eu/new-record-daily-global-average-temperature-reached-july-2024 17 comments technology
- In Earth's early history, a day was 23.5 hours and a year lasted 372 days https://us.cnn.com/2020/03/13/world/early-earth-shorter-day-scn/index.html 10 comments science
- Australia registers hottest day in recorded history. Outback towns become some of warmest places on Earth as report details season of unprecedented fire risk. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-hottest-day-record-bushfire-climate-change-spring-bom-a9251101.html 463 comments worldnews
- Journey through the Earth's climate history: For 800.000 years carbon dioxide levels have benn below this line, until the present day. Find out why. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2009/copenhagen/8386319.stm 9 comments science
- The moon is lengthening Earth’s day - A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours, at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around its axis. https://news.wisc.edu/thank-the-moon-for-earths-lengthening-day/ 26 comments science
- The moon is lengthening Earth’s day - A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours, at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around its axis. https://news.wisc.edu/thank-the-moon-for-earths-lengthening-day/ 558 comments space
- Today is Earth Overshoot Day, ergo the day on which our consumption of global natural resources outstrips production. This year's is the earliest in history. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/earth-overshoot-day-planet-resources_us_5b608a93e4b0de86f49b5162 276 comments worldnews
- [Henning] Kidd has a history of leaving situations with a 'scorched Earth' policy. Get ready for lots of leaks over the next few days. Gonna be a bumpy ride. https://twitter.com/brewcitypaul/status/955601007135920128 164 comments nba
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died - A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died 9 comments technology
- Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/?source=link_fb20101017enduringvoices 30 comments linguistics
- Earth's crust slowly being destroyed - The growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust was high during the first 1.5 billion years of the planet’s history then decreased markedly for the next three billion years to the present day http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-earth-crust-slowly.html 4 comments science
- For the first time in spaceflight history, a satellite has used mobile phone technology to radio back to Earth. The Herschel spacecraft called home two days later using the same technology used in GSM mobile phone networks to send test data to ESA’s deep space tracking station. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/19/herschel-phones-home-literally/ 6 comments space
- Carbon Dioxide Reached a New High in Humanity's Existence | We’re not even through the first month of 2020, and we already broke the record for the day with the most CO2 in all of human history - Carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere hit 415.79ppm at Mauna Loa Observatory on Tuesday https://earther.gizmodo.com/carbon-dioxide-reached-a-new-high-in-humanitys-existenc-1841175734 24 comments worldnews