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Overnight News Digest April 3rd 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-03
x The terrifying beauty of the Ocean. 🧵
A Thread Not for the soft-hearted ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/T6stMqyVpq — Earth_Wanderer (@earth_tracker) April 2, 2025
Tornadoes and flash flooding expected as 'catastrophic and potentially historic' storm takes aim at central U.S.
A powerful spring storm brought a barrage of life-threatening weather to a wide corridor of the central United States Wednesday in what the National Weather Service warns is "only the beginning of a multi-day catastrophic and potentially historic event." The system is expected to produce severe thunderstorms that could trigger multiple strong tornadoes from Texas to Ohio beginning Wednesday, followed by several days of excessive rain that could cause widespread, historic flooding. An "entire spring’s worth of rain” could fall in just days. Here's the latest forecast.
New research suggests troubling phenomenon brewing in Antarctic waters — here's what we should prepare for
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current may be moving 20% slower by 2050, according to research described in The Conversation. Surrounding Antarctica in a ring, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current in the world. However, its remote location has historically made it challenging to study, so it's not as well-understood as other currents of its caliber, as the researchers noted. However, modern technology has allowed researchers to delve into this subject further. Australia-based researchers Taimoor Sohail and Bishakhdatta Gayen, along with their colleague Andreas Klocker, used a supercomputer and climate simulator to predict future patterns of currents. "The model captures features others often miss, such as eddies," Sohail and Gayen explain in the Conversation. "So it's a far more accurate way to assess how the current's strength and behaviour will change. … It picks up the intricate interactions between ice melting and ocean circulation."
Scientists stunned by results from experiment strapping backpacks to endangered animals: 'It opened up a whole new world'
When scientists set out to track thick-billed parrots using tiny solar-powered "backpacks," they had no idea the research would reveal a need to ramp up conservation efforts for the endangered species. As Mongabay reported, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance scientists partnered with the ​​Mexican conservation activists Organización Vida Silvestre (OVIS) to study the birds' migratory patterns and determine which habitats need better protection. They outfitted 57 thick-billed parrots with lightweight sun-powered backpacks that contain transmitters to track the birds' movements, and the data has led to some surprising discoveries. "It opened up a whole new world of good decision-making for us," Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich, scientific director at OVIS, told Mongabay. "We were able to confirm, in some cases, areas that we were already trying to protect, but we were also able to detect additional areas."
3-year-old discovers 3,800-year-old treasure on family outing in Israel
A toddler unearthed an ancient treasure during a family outing in southern Israel earlier this month, officials said. While visiting the archaeological site Tel Azekah, some 50 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan found a scarab amulet believed to belong to Canaanite communities dating back as far as 3,800 years, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority, a national conservation agency. A site with biblical significance, Tel Azekah is a hill created from the debris of settlements built on top of one another over time. The discovery happened in early March, the child's sister, Omer Nitzan, told the Antiquities Authority.
241 passengers, crew sickened with norovirus on luxury cruise ship
More than 200 luxury cruise ship passengers caught norovirus on a monthlong transatlantic voyage that won't officially end until Sunday, U.S. health officials said. A new outbreak report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention tracked 224 of 2,538 passengers who became ill from the virus while on board the Cunard cruise line ship Queen Mary 2, along with 17 crew members. The vessel carried 1,232 crew overall, according to the CDC. Queen Mary 2 left Southampton in the United Kingdom March 8 on a route that first took it to New York and, then, down through the Caribbean, making various stops along the island chain, including St. Thomas and Barbados, according to an itinerary posted online by Cunard. The cruise sailed back to the U.K. on the same course it took to get to the Caribbean and is due to return to Southampton on April 6.
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