The affordability crunch is pushing Democrats to scale back climate ambitions The upfront costs of transitioning to clean energy and worries about rising utility bills are forcing tough choices for Democratic leaders.

Yeah, but what good is #affordability, when there is no #HABITABILITY amid #climate breakdown? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Exomoons Could Be Habitable for Billions of Years, Provided they have Hydrogen Atmospheres Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has shown that moons around free-floating planets can keep their water oceans liquid for up to 4.3 billion years by virtue of dense hydrogen atmospheres and tidal heating—that is to say, for almost as long as Earth has existed and sufficient time for complex life to develop.

Exomoons Could Be Habitable for Billions of Years, Provided they have Hydrogen Atmospheres #Science #Space #Astrobiology #Exomoons #Habitability

www.universetoday.com/articles/exomoons-could-...

HABITABILITY EVASION: How Landlords Shift Legal Duties to Tenants, Normalize Unsafe Housing, and Use “As-Is” Clauses as Structural Traps 1. The Promise of Habitability Colorado law (since 2008) requires landlords to provide: safe, stable floors working plumbing functioning heat weatherproofing no mold no infestations structurally sound ceilings and walls working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors This is the Warranty of Habitability.It is supposed to be non‑waivable and non‑negotiable. It is supposed to protect families. 2. The Clauses That Nullify It Across Loveland leases, habitability is quietly erased through clauses like: “Tenant accepts the Premises in such condition.” “Tenant waives the right to make repairs without written permission.”

#Habitability #legality

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Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exopl...

#Astrobiology #Astronomy #ESA #Exoplanet #Extraterrestrial #life […]

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Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exopl...

#Astrobiology #Astronomy #ESA #Exoplanet #Extraterrestrial #life […]

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First exoplanet images provide incredible habitability clues First exoplanet images from NASA’s SPARCS mission demonstrate that the CubeSat’s ultraviolet detectors are functioning perfectly to ...

#Technology #Astrophysics #CubeSat #Exoplanets […]

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New Model Defines An Upper Limit To Planetary Radiation Belt Intensity - Astrobiology We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such as planets.

New Model Defines An Upper Limit To Planetary Radiation Belt Intensity
astrobiology.com/2026/03/new-... #astrobiology #SpaceWeather #habitability

Active Learning For Planet Habitability Classification Under Extreme Class Imbalance - Astrobiology The increasing size and heterogeneity of exoplanet catalogs have made systematic habitability assessment challenging

Active Learning For Planet Habitability Classification Under Extreme Class Imbalance
astrobiology.com/2026/03/acti... #astrobiology #habitability

Can #ImpactChains be a pedagogical tool to raise awareness on #ClimateRisk and #Habitability? Yes! On Feb 13, we tested them in a workshop with students at Lycée Teyssier (Bitche) within the Habi(Li)ter project. + info on Habi(Li)ter: liec.univ-lorraine.fr/recherche-eq... @univlorraine.bsky.social

Would Earth still be habitable? A Stunning Study Would Earth still be a hospitable world without biology? New computer models simulate 4.5 billion years of a lifeless planet, revealing that geologi...

#Planets #Astrobiology #EarthScience #Exoplanets […]

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New Discoveries on Mars and Habitability By Nathalie A. Cabrol, Astrobiologist & Science Director, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute.

Organic molecules consistent with fatty acids and evidence of carbon cycling on Mars, facilitating the argument that abiogenesis was possible.
#astrobiology #exobiology #mars #seti #habitability
www.seti.org/news/new-dis...

Energy Deposition By Galactic Cosmic Rays And Implications For Ozone Chemistry - Astrobiology We present a Monte Carlo study of galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) energy deposition and its implications for stratospheric chemistry, performed with the Geant4 toolkit. Primary nuclei (protons, α, CNO, and ...

Energy Deposition By Galactic Cosmic Rays And Implications For Ozone Chemistry
astrobiology.com/2026/03/ener... #Astrobiology #exoplanet #habitability

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

Maps showing the coming changes in crop yields, habitability, & likely migrations.

"See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county."

#climate #habitability #migration
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Alien Pole Shifts Alien Pole Shifts: How Crustal Displacements Affect Evolution and Civilizations, for ETs and For Earth Of course, this scientific study about how catastrophic pole shifts/true pol...

#aliens #civilization #Obama #Pole #Shift […]

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Weathering a Stellar Temper Tantrum: How space weather complicates exoplanet habitability Exoplanets orbiting the most common stars in our galaxy experience intense space weather, raising questions...

#Daily #Paper #Summaries #exoplanets #habitability […]

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People Who Don’t Understand Downtowns Are Destroying Downtowns A far-fetched plan to demolish Dallas’s seat of government is threatening the city’s role in the region.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#cities #downtown #habitability

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A Cold Earth 146 Lightyears Away Could Be Habitable Learn about HD 137010 b, a cold Earth‑sized planet candidate that sits near the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone.

A Cold Earth 146 Lightyears Away Could Be Habitable #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #Exoplanets #Habitability #Astrobiology

www.discovermagazine.com/a-cold-earth-146-lightye...

New Measurements of Europa's Ice Shell Taint the Icy Moon's Potential Habitability Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a tantalizing target in the search for habitability in our Solar System. Its thick, global ice sheet overlies a warm, salty, chemically-rich ocean. But for life to exist in that ocean, nutrients need to find their way from the surface to the ocean. New research says that may be very difficult.

New Measurements of Europa's Ice Shell Taint the Icy Moon's Potential Habitability #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #Europa #Habitability #Astrobiology

www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-juno-meas...

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Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow transit in the archiv...

#Astronomy #Featured #Exoplanet #Habitability #Habitable #zone […]

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Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow transit in the archiv...

#Astronomy #Featured #Exoplanet #Habitability #Habitable #zone […]

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#Plasma #rings around #M #dwarf stars offer new clues to #planetary #habitability

Astronomers are using plasma clumps trapped in M dwarf magnetic fields as space weather stations to study how stellar particles & radiation affect plaent habitability scitechupdates.com/p...

Hidden Magma Oceans Could Shield Rocky Exoplanets From Harmful Radiation - Astrobiology Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary

Hidden Magma Oceans Could Shield Rocky Exoplanets From Harmful Radiation
astrobiology.com/2026/01/hidd... #astrobiology #habitability #exoplanet

Hundreds of Nearby Stars Flagged as Prime Candidates to Support Life One of the critical aspects of exoplanet habitability is the long-term stability of the stars they orbit.

#mwgic #2026 #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Exoplanets #KtypeStars #Habitability #Habitable

www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-...

Direct Constraints From 1.4 Ga Fluid Inclusions Reveal A Fair Climate And Oxygenated Atmosphere - Astrobiology The Mesoproterozoic eon often regarded as mundane and static

Direct Constraints From 1.4 Ga Fluid Inclusions Reveal A Fair Climate And Oxygenated Atmosphere
astrobiology.com/2026/01/dire... #astrobiology #biosignature #habitability #AAS247

How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump

I got another word: #HABITABILITY
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u... At the risk of stating the obvious, #BREATHING is necessary for human #survival www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUas... #affordability #climate #airquality #climatechange #brooklyn

This week in Shelterforce:

• A Queens community is still waiting for flood protections as NYC builds seawalls elsewhere
• What Cambridge’s RAD-based overhaul can teach us
• Explainer: What makes a rental “habitable”?

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#HousingJustice #ClimateResilience #Habitability

[8/8] L’adaptation ne suffira pas sans atténuation. Sans neutralité carbone, l’habitabilité continuera de reculer. La justice climatique se joue à l’échelle territoriale, car les ménages les + exposés st aussi ceux qui émettent le - et disposent de - de marges d’action.
#geography #habitability

Large drainage systems produced half of Mars’ ancient river sediment | PNAS Large, continental-scale drainage systems occupy nearly half of Earth’s land, shaping diverse ecosystems, with their activity primarily driven by c...

Large drainage systems produced half of Mars’ ancient river sediment
#Mars #habitability

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

TRAPPIST-1e Likely Doesn’t  Have What It Takes To Be a Habitable Planet — Here’s Why The mystery of whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere capable of hosting life continues. Discover more about it.

TRAPPIST-1e Likely Doesn’t  Have What It Takes To Be a Habitable Planet — Here’s Why #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #TRAPPIST1e #Habitability #Exoplanets