Burst of New Geochemical Evidence for Viking Travels Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
Novel geochemical dating techniques show that Norse people were in L’Anse aux Meadows exactly 1,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have been gathering physical…
Novel geochemical dating techniques show that Norse people were in L’Anse aux Meadows exactly 1,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have been gathering physical…
Torrential rain in southern British Columbia and western Washington spurred deadly floods and mudslides that have damaged infrastructure and isolated communities. Torrential rain in the…
Shallow rock formations and sandbars allow people to occasionally walk between the islands. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph that…
The James Webb Space Telescope will launch from Europe’s spaceport near the Equator in French Guiana. In early October 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope…
Moist ocean air and steady winds pile up thunderheads and anvil clouds around Indonesia. An astronaut onboard the International Space Station shot this panoramic, west-looking…
On November 11, the United States honors those who have served in the armed forces with the federal holiday Veterans Day. Elsewhere in the world,…
Now in its check-out period, the satellite has provided a glimpse of the compelling and useful imagery it will provide in tandem with Landsat 8….
Like so many glaciers in Greenland, Kjer has retreated significantly in recent decades and now flows more rapidly toward the ocean. Change is constant and…
Iron-rich aerosols from the 2019-2020 fires fertilized huge phytoplankton populations in the far South Pacific. The catastrophic wildfires that scorched eucalyptus forests in southern and…
Washington Irving’s classic tale about a headless horseman plays out an ancient landscape scarred by tectonic collisions and the relentless forces of erosion. In 1798,…
Scientific Questions Arrive in Ports Satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide near key U.S. ports suggest that increased shipping activity and backlogs may be affecting air…
January 1 – October 7, 2021 A colder than usual winter atmosphere over the Southern Hemisphere led to a deep and larger-than-average ozone hole in…
October 10 – 25, 2021 One of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever to strike the Pacific Northwest drew an equally historic amount of moisture…
Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought across the U.S. Southwest has led…
Recent storms added to an already heavy monsoon season. Persistent rain in mid-October 2021 brought more flooding to central and northeastern Thailand, where rivers and…
Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide — a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and moisture in the air to produce a haze called vog. More than…
As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its many mountain ranges the “Third Pole” because the…
Spencer Gulf in South Australia hosts the world’s largest cuttlefish mass spawning event. Each winter from May to August, thousands of Australian giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) make…