By Terri Hansen It wasn’t long after President Trump took office that chaos took hold at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Throughout his campaign, Trump had promised to get rid of the agency, leaving just “little tidbits left.” He wasted little time. https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1460041177342148/ Out of the gate, Trump’s transition team was set to remove […]
By Sharon Lerner While Donald Trump was reviving both the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, muzzling federal employees, freezing EPA contracts and first telling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to remove mentions of climate change from its website—and then reversing course—many of the scientists who work on climate change in federal agencies were […]
By Leo Hickman The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. space agency, has released an “eye-popping” three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year. It says the 3-D visualization is “one of the most realistic views yet” of the “complex patterns in which carbon […]
Scientists are bringing life on Mars closer and closer to reality by growing edible plants in soil similar to that of the red planet. Peas being grown in Mars-like soil simulants. Photo credit: Wagningen University via Facebook Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands successfully grew 10 crops of which four so far have been […]
While it might look pretty, red snow is a cause for concern, scientists say. The phenomenon, sometimes called watermelon snow or blood snow, is actually an algae bloom, The Washington Post reported. Algae known as chlamydomonas nivalis are causing the hue through chemical reactions. The algae are normally green, but when they soak up ultraviolet […]
The Caribbean Sea is whistling in an A-flat tone, roughly 30 octaves below the bottom of a piano. University of Liverpool researchers detected the noise when they were analyzing sea level and sea floor pressure in the Caribbean Sea, an area that has been monitored for the past 60 years. But something unusual showed up […]
Today marks a special day for astronomy enthusiasts. The summer solstice and June’s strawberry moon will coincide for the first time in nearly 70 years. Full strawberry moon. Anca Emanuela Teaca / Alamy In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and the official start of summer. The solstice […]
California’s 2015 methane leak was so large it could be seen from space, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) statement released Tuesday. Comparison of detected atmospheric methane over Aliso Canyon, acquired 11 days apart in January 2016. The left picture was taken by NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer on a NASA ER-2 […]
Evidence of antibiotic-resistant “super bacteria” has been found at several Olympic sites in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, including waters that will host the swimming portion of the triathlon and in the lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete this summer. Sugar Loaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo credit: Halley Pacheco de Oliveira, […]
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