هل خطر ببالك يوماً أن شعورك بالاشمئزاز يؤثر على توجهاتك ومواقفك السياسية؟ هذا ما حاولت دراسات عديدة الإجابة عليه، وتبيّن أن شعورك بالاشمئزاز بسرعة قد يرتبط بتوجه محافظ، لكنه ليس العامل الحاسم الوحيد.
As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking devices to hundreds of butterflies to find those critical stopover locations before they disappear.
Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will have "irreversible" consequences for glaciers, sea ice and the Earth's frozen regions, two UN reports warned on Monday, calling for urgent action. The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement commits the world to limiting warming to well below 2C and pursuing efforts to hold it at 1.5C to try to avoid the worst effects of climate change. One of the reports said overshooting the 1.5C target "will bring large-scale and in many cases irreversible impacts" for the cryosphere -- Earth's ice in all its forms.