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Jul 19, 2014 · In a new study, a team of four U.S. atmospheric and environmental scientists modeled what would happen after a “limited, regional nuclear war.” To inexpert ears, the consequences sound ...
Jul 7, 2022 · FULL STORY. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought the threat of nuclear warfare to the forefront. But how would modern nuclear detonations impact the world today? A new study...
Jun 29, 2023 · A recent scientific paper estimates that over 5 billion people could starve to death, including around 99% of those in the US, Europe, Russia, and China – because most black carbon smoke stays in...
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Jul 7, 2022 · The researchers simulated what would happen to the Earth's systems in a full-scale global war, with the U.S. and Russia using 4,400 Hiroshima -sized 100-kiloton nuclear weapons to bomb cities...
- David Bressan
- So Much Silence
- Home Sweet Home
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- Like Ancient Rome
If humans just disappeared from the world, and you could come back to Earth to see what had happened one year later, the first thing you’d notice wouldn’t be with your eyes. It would be with your ears. The world would be quiet. And you would realize how much noise people make. Our buildings are noisy. Our cars are noisy. Our sky is noisy. All of th...
Imagine that first year, when your house would sit unbothered by anyone. Go inside your house – and hope you’re not thirsty, because no water would be in your faucets. Water systems require constant pumping. If no one’s at the public water supply to manage the machines that pump water, then there’s no water. But the water that was in the pipes when...
In your neighborhood, critters would wander around, looking and wondering. First the little ones: mice, groundhogs, raccoons, skunks, foxes and beavers. That last one might surprise you, but North America was once rich with beavers. Bigger animals would come later – deer, coyotes and the occasional bear. Not in the first year, maybe, but eventually...
After just one year, the concrete stuff – roads, highways, bridges and buildings – would look about the same. Come back, say, a decade later, and cracks in them would have appeared, with little plants wiggling up through them. This happens because the Earth is constantly moving. With this motion comes pressure, and with this pressure come cracks. E...
In a thousand years, the world you remember would still be vaguely recognizable. Some things would remain; it would depend on the materials they were made of, the climate they’re in, and just plain luck. An apartment building here, a movie theater there, or a crumbling shopping mall would stand as monuments to a lost civilization. The Roman Empire ...
- Carlton Basmajian
Aug 8, 2024 · Since their first and, to date, only use in 1945, nuclear weapons have been a profound source of fear. But could they actually threaten the survival of all humanity? Could they lead to our extinction? Would a full-scale nuclear war pose a threat to Earth itself?
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Oct 14, 2021 · A global war would leave an average ozone layer loss of 75 percent over the course of 15 years, the researchers found, with a regional war resulting in a 25 percent ozone layer loss over a period of 12 years.
