Climate change gave significant boost to Milton’s destructive rain, winds, scientists say
Scientists say human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton’s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%. World Weather Attribution’s flash study comes just two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States, a storm also fueled by climate change. The scientists said without climate change…
Azerbaijan HR Institute to Host Pioneering “COP29 Human Capital Forum” Focused on Green HR for a Sustainable Future
On October 15, 2024, for the first time in Azerbaijan, the “COP29 Human Capital Forum” will be held under the theme “Green Human Resources for a Sustainable Future,” to be organized by the Azerbaijan HR Institute in partnership with UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative…
TikTok lays off hundreds for AI moderators while Instagram blames humans for its own issues
TikTok developer ByteDance laid off hundreds of human moderators in favor of AI, while Threads blamed its human moderators on a recent string of account lockouts…
New Excavations Provide Insights into Early Human Activity in Jungles of Laos
Archaeologists excavating Tam Pà Ling (Cave of Monkeys) in northeastern Laos have recovered fossil evidence for some of the earliest Homo sapiens presence in mainland Southeast Asia. The post New Excavations Provide Insights into Early Human Activity in Jungles of Laos appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Human Origins Look Ever More Tangled with Gene and Fossil Discoveries
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals…
Windsor humane society members lose voting rights as agency shifts to self-governing model
Windsor/Essex County Humane Society members have lost their voting rights after the organization finalized a bylaw last Friday, giving the board full control under a new self-governing model. Twenty-seven eligible members voted to accept the new governance structure. But more than 100 new members who signed up after June 11 — following the dismissal of…
Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to adopt advanced weaponry
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them – and an experiment involving a 9-metre-tall platform may explain why…
Loss of lake ice has wide-ranging environmental and societal consequences
The world’s freshwater lakes are freezing over for shorter periods of time due to climate change. This shift has major implications for human safety, as well as water quality, biodiversity, and global nutrient cycles…