NASA Sees Hanna Strengthen into First Atlantic Hurricane of 2020
NASA satellite imagery revealed powerful thunderstorms fueled the intensification of Hanna into a hurricane along the Texas coast. Hanna has become the first hurricane of…
NASA satellite imagery revealed powerful thunderstorms fueled the intensification of Hanna into a hurricane along the Texas coast. Hanna has become the first hurricane of…
Global COVID-19 “lockdown” measures — the quarantines, physical isolation, travel restrictions, and widespread closures of services and industries that countries around the world have implemented…
In July 2020, the Eastern Pacific experienced its first major hurricane of the year. After intensifying to category 4 strength on July 23, Douglas rapidly…
Since the start of Asia’s summer monsoon season on June 1, 2020, excessive rainfall has pushed lakes and rivers to record high levels in China….
The Falkland Islands are featured in this radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. The Falkland Islands lie in the South Atlantic Ocean, around…
The lack of human activity during the lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May…
The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is providing scientists new understanding of the methane cycle and the role methane found in…
On the morning of June 23, 2020, a strong earthquake struck the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The 7.4- magnitude earthquake prompted evacuations in the…
The activity of the solid Earth – for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc – is well understood within the context of the…
Less than two months into hurricane season, the Atlantic basin has already produced six named storms, delivering some of the earliest activity in the past…
On July 17, 2020, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image of the Mineral Fire in Fresno County, California. Over…
The growing global population and continued economic development will likely require a significant increase in water demand, especially in developing regions. At the same time,…
The ancient Greek philosopher was on to something, researchers found. Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E., believed that the universe…
Research by the University of Liverpool has revealed that strange behavior of the magnetic field in the South Atlantic region existed as far back as…
A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth’s ecosystems before…
The technology’s regional impacts depend on how much greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. Could we create massive sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming and…
Utah’s Great Salt Lake and its surroundings are featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The Great Salt Lake is the…
As need for cooling rises in step with world temperatures, energy-efficient, climate-friendly appliances are critical to reaching Paris Agreement goals; 3.6 billion appliances in use…