Nina Munteanu

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Entries Tagged as 'Earth'

What Color is Your Alien?

June 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Apparently the vegetable kingdom in Mars, instead of having green for a dominant colour, is of a vivid blood-red tint—H.G. WellsAccording to Nancy Y. Kiang (biometeorologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) green aliens are so passé. Well, she may have a point. In a fascinating article in Scientific American (April, 2008), Kiang [...]

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Tags: Earth · NASA · alien life · astronomy · biosignature · exobiology · extrasolar world · habitable zone · light spectrum · photosynthesis · planets · science · space · star · star type

Climate Change–Part 2: Solastalgia

April 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Solastalgia: the sadness caused by environmental change or loss.

Solastalgia: the distress caused by the lived experience of the transformation of one’s home and sense of belonging and is experienced through the feeling of desolation about its change.“Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, [...]

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Tags: Bible · Clive Thompson · Earth · Gaia · Glenn Albrecht · Kabbalah · Sodom and Gomorrah · Tower of Babel · climate change · drought · environment · global warming · mental health · science · solastalgia