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Hilary is a tropical storm and it could be the first tropical storm in 80 years to hit California
Tropical storm watches were issued for the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Orange County areas in California after Hurricane Hilary hit Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Hilary is expected to bring heavy rains to the West Coast and Southwest United States through the weekend. “Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours,” the National Hurricane Center said.
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Michael Oher’s petition was called offensive by the Tuohy family
Michael Oher, the former US National Football League (NFL) offensive lineman who was made famous by the 2009 film ‘The Blind Side’, has said he wants his family to end his conservatorship. “I’m grateful for letting me stay my senior year there,” he added. Oher said his family persuaded him to sign the documents that agreed to the conservatorship nearly 20 years ago.
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The Tuohy family doesn’t like Michael Oher’s petition and thinks it’s an attempt at a shakedown
Former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher has sued Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy for more than $15 million (over 100 crore). Oher said he wanted the Tuohy family to be his legal guardian until he was 25 years old. The Tuohy family said that the petition was a way to satisfy the NCAA when Oher might play football at the University of Mississippi.
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In need of protection will be vast new glaciers
Rising temperatures could reduce the area covered by glaciers worldwide by more than one fifth this century, exposing vast areas of land to atmosphere for the first time in thousands of years, according to a study. Satellite radar interferometry and visocelastic modeling show there’s a solid Earth response to ice retreat, the study added. “This could be one of the largest ecosystems changes on our planet,” it further said.
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Lahaina is not Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that there’s “no firefighting capabilities for structure-to-structure urban fire in winds like that” in Hawaii, where a wildfire has killed 99 people. With this, it added, “There’s no firefighting capabilities for structure-to-structure urban fire in winds like that.” The fire broke out last week in the Hawaiian tourist town of Lahaina.
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See moving photos of the last days of Arecibo
A new study conducted by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education has found that Canadian institutions and US universities have some of the most flexible policies on paid parental leaves in the world. Researchers recorded data on the length of paid parental leave across institutions, the academic job and the parent type. The study analysed parental leave policies in both countries.
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Clean energy is good for the world’s health
A new study by the UN Environment Programme says that there is a need for a Science Community to support measures and actions in the climate, energy and sustainable development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study assessed 56 indicators across all 17 SDGs. It added that an international climate finance mechanism would levy fees on carbon emissions that would be redistributed through national programmes.
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The group says thatAI companies have to prove they are safe
A nonprofit group called Accountable Tech has proposed a Zero Trust AI framework for artificial intelligence (AI) to politicians and government agencies in US. It said the framework seeks “a common understanding” among artificial intelligence companies, politicians and the government of the US. It also called for large cloud providers to be prevented from owning or having beneficial interest in large commercial AI services.
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It is possible for pollution and overfishing to protect corals, but it is not enough
The coral reef in Kealakekua Bay, Australia experienced significant coral growth in the 12 years leading up to the Australian heatwave in 2019. reefs with more fish, particularly herbivorous scrapers, and lower levels of wastewater pollution experienced coral growth. The value of 250 kilograms of scraper biomass as a management target is an estimate of scrapers on a reef with strong fish stocks.
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The recovery of freshwater fauna in Europe has stopped
We ran linear mixed-effects models to synthesize site-level data and estimate overall mean trends. The models included site-level trend estimates as the response, an overall intercept and two random effects (country and study identity) as predictors. The uncertainty of the estimates of the mean trend was represented by brms 80, used to estimate the site-level trends.
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