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 […]
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 […]
Rapper B.o.B. is the latest celebrity to take to Twitter to promote the “Flat Earth” theory, which has no support in the modern scientific community. https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691439089543880704 His evidence includes “Why is the horizon always at eye level?,” “Why aren’t planes constantly flying into space?” and “Why can you see Philadelphia from New Jersey?” Here is a […]
Last week, two scientists announced evidence of a planet roughly the size of Neptune with a mass 10 times that of Earth‘s and a thick atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. The planet is so far away that its year would last 10,000 to 20,000 Earth-years. The planet has not actually been seen yet, though. Rather, two planetary scientists, Konstantin […]
Piers Sellers, a NASA astronaut and climate scientist, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times this past weekend after being diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Poignant words of hope from friend, Piers Sellers. Life, love, and our fragile planet. https://t.co/RdDCT41otu pic.twitter.com/pm8DUBKPlf — Doug Wheelock (@Astro_Wheels) January 17, 2016 Sellers wrote: “This diagnosis puts […]
For the next few weeks, stargazers are in for a treat. It’s the first time in more than a decade that all five planets visible with the naked eye—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—are visible at the same time. Those in the Northern Hemisphere should look to the south about 45 minutes before sunrise, while those in the Southern […]
A rapid near-time analysis of the UK’s record-breaking wet December in 2015 suggests that climate change increased the odds of the exceptionally high rainfall by 50-75 percent. Carbon Brief takes a look at the research and quizzes of the experts on the science behind attributing extreme weather events to human-caused climate change. https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/687911101149933568, suggest that […]
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