By Daniel Grossman A new air sampling device may help scientists better track carbon pollution in the atmosphere. Listen here or read below: As countries around the world commit to reducing emissions, measuring their carbon pollution is critical to tracking progress. Pieter Tans is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and […]
Researchers from Utah State University found that the Beehive State’s Great Salt Lake has shrunk by 48 percent since 1847. Meanwhile, Lake Poopó, Bolivia’s second-largest lake, is died up and may be beyond recovery. NASA satellite image of Utah’s Great Salt Lake captured on Aug. 18, 2014. Utah State University scientists and state managers fear the Great Salt […]
This winter was the warmest on the record for the continental U.S., new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows, as average temperatures climbed nearly 5 F above normal. How temperatures compared to long-term averages across the contiguous U.S. during the winter of 2015-2016. Photo credit: NOAA Every state in the lower 48 […]
The Planetary Society’s solar sail is another step closer to spending its days in the sun. The world’s largest space-interest nonprofit has unveiled the LightSail-2, the successor to the original LightSail CubeSat (or cube satellite used for space research) that successfully deployed its solar sails in space eight months ago. The LightSail’s mylar solar sails span […]
We earthlings have been blessed with some pretty spectacular images from space in recent months. There was the “Blue Marble” image, the dark side of the moon, up close images of the sun, the moon and Pluto and the plumes of smoke from wildfires raging in the Western U.S. and Canada. Astronauts at the International Space Station […]
Did you know that there are fire tornadoes on the sun bigger than Earth itself? Or that the human brain has more synapses than the Milky Way has stars? According to List25, this and much more are true. List25’s video, 25 Mind Blowing Scientific Truths to Challenge Your Brain, reveals all kinds of facts that are difficult to wrap your […]
An estimated 150,000 Adélie penguins living in Cape Denison, Antarctica, have died after a stranded iceberg became grounded forcing the penguins to travel almost 40 miles in search of food. According to a new study in Antarctic Science, with the 2011 arrival of the colossal iceberg B09B, sea ice has extended up to 60 km across East Antarctica’s Commonwealth Bay, which […]
By National Snow and Ice Data Center January Arctic sea ice extent was the lowest in the satellite record, attended by unusually high air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean and a strong negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) for the first three weeks of the month. Meanwhile in the Antarctic, this year’s extent was […]
A team of researchers from National Geographic recently carried out an expedition into the ice caves inside one of Mount Rainier’s craters in Washington. The expedition served three purposes: collect data to protect climbers, learn about potential alien life on icy planets and study the cave’s climatology. These caves often end up becoming places of refuge […]
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