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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential. degrees Celsius by 2050, as set out in the Paris Agreement, is probably out of reach.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

He “found” the Bahamas. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. 1992: Five hundred years after Columbus’ voyage, the United Nations General Assembly adopts the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.

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Rocket Report: SpaceX lands in the Bahamas; ULA tests modified booster

Ars Technica

Flawed or not, these decisions were backstopped with some level of reasoning, debate, and national consensus-building. Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. Rocket Lab launches for the 60th time.

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