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    Astronauts Return to Earth From International Space Station

    Astronauts Return to Earth From International Space Station

    Three astronauts landed back on Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. A Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft undocked from the ISS at about 10 p.m. UTC Thursday, with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir on board. The Soyuz crew ship carrying the Exp 62 trio has fired its […]

    2018 Likely to Rank as Fourth-Hottest Year on Record

    2018 Likely to Rank as Fourth-Hottest Year on Record

    After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves and devastating wildfires, 2018 is shaping up to be one of the planet’s hottest years in recorded history. From January through September, the average global temperature was 1.39°F above the 20th century average of 57.5°F, making it the fourth warmest year-to-date on record, and only 0.43°F lower than the […]

    NASA’s New Space Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing Ice

    NASA’s New Space Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing Ice

    NASA will soon activate the “most advanced laser instrument of its kind” to study Earth’s changing polar ice. The incredibly precise Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) is the main feature of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) that successfully launched into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. […]

    NASA Climate Scientist Warned Us About Warming 30 Years Ago

    NASA Climate Scientist Warned Us About Warming 30 Years Ago

    Climate science marks a troubling anniversary this week: in June of 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress that global warming had already begun to affect the world and would only get worse. A sweeping AP analysis finds that in the decades since Hansen’s testimony, global temperatures have risen nearly 1 degree F, while the […]

    Trump Kills NASA Carbon Monitoring Program as CO2 Levels Soar Past ‘Troubling’ 410 ppm Threshold

    Trump Kills NASA Carbon Monitoring Program as CO2 Levels Soar Past ‘Troubling’ 410 ppm Threshold

    By Jessica Corbett As the Trump administration charges forward with its war on science by canceling a “crucial” carbon monitoring system at NASA, scientists and climate experts are sounding alarms over atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) that just surpassed a “troubling” threshold for the first time in human history. “The reading from the Mauna […]

    Slow Motion Ocean: Why Are North Atlantic Currents Weakening?

    Slow Motion Ocean: Why Are North Atlantic Currents Weakening?

    By Alex Kirby The Gulf Stream is slowing, the North Atlantic is cooling. An international scientific study has found new and harder evidence that one of the planet’s key heat pumps, the currents which exchange warmth between the tropics and the Arctic, are weaker today than at any time in the last thousand years. The […]