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From NASA Some 50 miles up, where Earth’s atmosphere blends into space, the air itself hums with an electric current. Scientists call it the atmospheric dynamo, an Earth-sized electric generator. It’s taken hundreds of years for…

For decades, scientists engaged in the search for life in the universe (also known as astrobiology) have focused on the search for life on other Earth-like planets. This included terrestrial (also known as rocky) planets outside of our…

From polar bear science By Susan Crockford In an unexpected statement, Dag Vongraven (the outgoing chairman of the Polar Bear Specialist Group) points out that many of the relentless warnings of the doom of PBSG members were a…

Aim for the Center The Milky Way is 13 BILLION years old. Some of our Galaxy’s oldest stars were born near the beginning of the Universe itself. During all these eons of time, we know at least one technological civilization has been born –…

Reposted by NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS JULY 2, 2021 By Paul Homewood Joe Biden is committed to fully decarbonizing the U.S. electricity system by 2035 and reducing emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. But how does that…

Things are not looking very good for the Hubble Space Telescope right now. On Sunday June 13, the telescope's payload computer suddenly stopped working, causing the main computer to put the telescope in Safe Mode. While the telescope…

Guest “Math class is tough” by David Middleton ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTHouse Democrats unite to send firm climate signal to BidenDemocrats across the ideological spectrum want strong climate change action as part of any legislative…

When Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed to pass through the solar system, was discovered in 2017, it exhibited some unexpected properties that made astronomers scratch their heads. Its elongated shape, lack of a coma,…

Guest Post by Renee Hannon IntroductionThis post compares CO2 ice core measurements from Greenland to those from Antarctica over the last millennium. Paleoclimate studies typically use only Antarctic ice cores to evaluate past CO2…

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION Research news PICTURE: THE PERCENTAGE OF EVERY SURFACE EXPERIENCE ANY POINT IN THE YEAR (1981-2010) OF ICE, SNOW, OR FROZEN GROUND. Show more CREDIT: PENG ET AL. (2021) THE FUTURE OF EARTH…