Mass shootings in the U.S. in 2021

NBC News defines a mass shooting as a single incident involving three or more people who have been shot in a public place, excluding the shooter.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-shootings-u-s-2021-n1264354
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From Kobe to California fires: Some of 2020’s biggest non-Covid, non-election stories

2020 has been a year that no one will forget and it’s not just because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic or President-elect Joe Biden’s big win.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kobe-california-fires-some-2020-s-biggest-non-covid-non-n1252629
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The Biggest Science News of 2020

[Yelling into a cavernous chamber as supernovae explode in the dark and a gust of hot wind comes whistling through] SCIENCE!!!!

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Source: https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-science-news-of-2020-1845972904
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THINKing about how we survived one of the worst years ever — and what happens next

We ask people who lived through some of this before to tell us how they survived any of this — and, since 2021 is upon us, what can possibly happen next.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/thinking-about-how-we-survived-one-worst-years-ever-what-ncna1252181
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Doomsday Clock 2020: Will the world move one step closer to annihilation this year?

Scientists gather to judge risk posed to humanity by climate change and threats of nuclear war

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/doomsday-clock-2020-announcement-climate-change-nuclear-war-trump-iran-north-korea-a9297696.html
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The 2010s were officially the hottest decade on record

It’s official: Last year was the world’s second hottest on record, and 2010-2019 was the hottest decade ever recorded.

Why it matters: The findings, published in two separate reports by NOAA and the British weather service the Met Office Wednesday, are in line with those of research group Berkeley Earth, revealed at the start of the year. It’s yet more evidence of the long-term warming trend that stems from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Official #NOAA data are in. 2019 was 2nd-warmest year on record. Average surface temp was 2F above pre-industrial (1880-1900). Watch the months roll by in this animated gif. https://t.co/uckeHnLYV0 pic.twitter.com/DD5tDHfako

— NOAA Climate.gov (@NOAAClimate) January 15, 2020

• The Met Office notes in its report that the main contributor to warming over the past 170 years “is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”

The world’s five warmest years have all occurred since 2015 with nine of the 10 warmest years occurring since 2005.”

NOAA statement

The big picture: NOAA notes that analysis by NASA scientists in a separate study just released concurred with its results and found the last decade was the hottest since records began in 1880.

• The warm temperatures were recorded in a year marked by melting glaciers, with a funeral ceremony being held in Switzerland in September for Pizol glacier, which has lost 80-90% of its volume since 2006.
• Meanwhile, fires raged in California, the Amazon and Australia — where bushfires continue to devastate much of the country.

Zoom in: In the United States, 2019 marked the hottest year for Alaska on record.

Zoom out: The average global temperature in 2019 was 1.71°F above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA. The only year to record a hotter global temperature was 2016 — just. That year was 0.07 of a degree Fahrenheit hotter than 2019.

• “The annual global land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of +0.13°F per decade since 1880,” NOAA said in its report. However, since 1981 the average rate of increase is more than twice that rate — plus 0.32°F.
• “For the 21-year span that is considered a reasonable surrogate for pre-industrial conditions (1880–1900), the 2019 global land and ocean temperature was 2.07°F … above the average,” NOAA stated..

The bottom line: Per the Met Office, “The effects of human-induced climate change are not limited to surface temperature. Warming of the climate system is seen across a range of climate indicators that build a holistic picture of change outside of our expectations from natural variability across the land, atmosphere, oceans and ice.”

Go deeper: 2010s to go down as hottest decade on record

Source: https://www.axios.com/2010s-hottest-decade-ever-noaa-nasa-4f82b9ed-4136-422f-91b7-db0d74e46241.html
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2019 was a surprisingly good year for animal rights – here are this year's eleven major achievements

We may be facing a big battle, but attitudes are evolving, and the years ahead look promising too

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/animal-rights-new-year-veganism-cruelty-free-peta-a9264191.html
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Barack Obama's favourite books of 2019

Former US president is known for being a voracious reader

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/barack-obama-books-2019-favourite-best-list-a9263051.html
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A picture and its story: Photographers share their experiences capturing news images in 2019

Photojournalists talk behind the scenes capturing some of the most significant events this year

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/photographer-photojournalists-notre-dame-gaza-assange-kim-jong-un-a9261436.html
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