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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 […]

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    Stunning NASA Image Shows Three Wildfires Burning in Southern California

    Stunning NASA Image Shows Three Wildfires Burning in Southern California

    NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image that shows the billowing smoke from three wildfires raging in Southern California on Tuesday. The stunning photo shows the Thomas fire in Ventura County, the largest of the ongoing blazes, as well as the smaller Creek and Rye fires in Los Angeles County. According to the latest updates from […]

    15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

    15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

    More than 15,000 scientists have signed a chilling article titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice,” urging global leaders to save the planet from environmental catastrophe. The plea, published Monday in the international journal BioScience, is likely the largest-ever formal support by scientists for a journal article with 15,372 total signatories, Motherboard noted. […]

    This Year’s Ozone Hole Is the Smallest It’s Been Since 1988

    This Year’s Ozone Hole Is the Smallest It’s Been Since 1988

    The hole in Earth’s ozone layer is the smallest it’s been since 1988, NASA satellite estimates observed. While the ozone hole is still enormous—measuring about 19.6 million square kilometers (7.6 million square miles, or 2.5 times the size of the U.S.) at its annual peak extent this Sept. 11—that’s much smaller compared to the average […]

    Widespread Devastation as Hurricane Irma Tears Through Caribbean

    Widespread Devastation as Hurricane Irma Tears Through Caribbean

    Hurricane Irma tore through the northeast Caribbean Wednesday, causing widespread devastation on the islands of Barbuda, Anguilla, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy. As many as ten deaths have been reported. One official called Barbuda “barely habitable,” estimating to the BBC that 50 percent of the island’s population are now homeless. The hurricane raked over Puerto Rico early […]

    Trump Nominates Climate Change Denier to Head NASA

    Trump Nominates Climate Change Denier to Head NASA

    President Trump‘s intention to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma as the next administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has drawn controversy as the Republican congressman denies the human causes of climate change. “I would say that the climate is changing. It has always changed. There were periods of time long before […]

    July Ties for Hottest Month on Record

    July Ties for Hottest Month on Record

    Last month tied July 2016 as the hottest July in recorded history, according to a preliminary analysis by NASA. And as a result, it also statistically tied with August 2016 and July 2016 as the hottest months ever recorded. Mashable’s Andrew Freedman noted that this record is even more noteworthy because it occurred in the […]

    The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017: What, When, How?

    The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017: What, When, How?

    Just yesterday at my local supermarket checkout line, I was innocently asked why I needed to pick up a pair of solar eclipse glasses. “Um, because I could go blind,” I responded. “You should get a pair, too.” You see, I happen to live on the South Carolina coast, which is right on the path […]