Bloomberg View's Christopher Flavelle interviews American sociologist Karen O'Neill to talk about some strategies that might get people to abandon coastal areas endangered by flooding.

Most Americans, to the degree that they think about climate-change adaptation, probably think of bigger sea walls, or maybe changing the kinds of houses we live in ( Read more... )

The Guardian's Hannah Devlin reports on new models of Venus' environment which suggest this world was very broadly Earth-like well into the history of solar system. This is tantalizing, not least because of the prospects for life.

Its surface is hot enough to melt lead and its skies are darkened by toxic clouds of sulphuric acid. Venus is often ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that 1975 was a formative year for Toronto.
• Centauri Dreams speculates about the oceans of Pluto and Saturn's Dione.
• Crooked Timber talks about Hannah Arendt's arguments about the importance of bearing testament.
• D-Brief looks at the cnyodont, an extinct reptile ancestral to mammals.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of Patti Smith.

• blogTO notes that Toronto has its first Ethiopian food truck.
• Beyond the Beyond considers the alien ocean of Europa.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the protoplanetary disks of brown dwarfs.
• D-Brief notes that Saturn's moon Dione may have a subsurface ocean.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at how broadly Earth-like exoplanets form their atmospheres.

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares some of that newspaper's best papers from last month.
• blogTO shares Nuit Blanche photos.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the divide between journalism and content creation.
• Centauri Dreams considers the Rosetta probe.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of the suitcases left by patients at an American ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait evaluates the doability of Elon Musk's proposal for colonizing Mars.
• blogTO notes that Casa Loma will be transformed into a haunted house for the month of October.
• The Dragon's Tales notes NASA's belief that Europa almost certainly has watery plumes.
• False Steps shares an early American proposal for a lunar base.
• Far Outliers ( Read more... )

• D-Brief notes the apparent discovery by Hubble of water plumes from Europa.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper noting different solutions to the mystery of Boyajian's Star.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of deserted Pripyat in Ukraine.
• Joe. My. God. notes that 80% of Chicago police dashcams were disabled by the police.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money and Noel ( Read more... )

CBC News' article on Prince Edward Island's Lennox Island tells a tale of catastrophe. That Lennox Island is also the dominant cultural focus of the Island's Mi'kmaq further the catastrophe.

Lennox Island, a small First Nations community on Prince Edward Island, is beginning to disappear amid the rising waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having already ( Read more... )

Andrew Rice's New York article paints a terrifying future for New York City, and other coastal cities.

Klaus Jacob, a German professor affiliated with Columbia’s University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a geophysicist by profession and a doomsayer by disposition. I’ve gotten to know him over the past few years, as I’ve sought to ( Read more... )

• The Dragon's Gaze looks at Proxima Centauri b, its atmosphere and its geomagnetics and its history and, of course, its potential habitability.
• The Dragon's Tales wonders about the origins of Titan's channels.
• Torontoist notes mental health care issues for those without a family doctor.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes European Union rulings on linkage.
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