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Deborah Byrd
Shark finning is brutal and sad
Startling infographic about the cruel practice of shark finning, and a word about overfishing from an expert.
May 14, 2015
Astronomers find dark globular clusters
They believe there's unexpected dark matter - or black holes - in the mysterious clusters orbiting the center of the giant galaxy Centaurus A.
May 14, 2015
Milky Way against a bright moon
Even in bright moonlight, astrophotographer Justin Ng captures amazing shots of the Milky Way. Here's one from May 6, during the peak of a meteor shower.
May 14, 2015
World’s hottest and coldest places
From California's Death Valley to China's Flaming Mountains of Xinjiang ... the world's hottest places. And coldest places! New infographic by GB Energy Supply.
May 13, 2015
Sea haar and clouds meet
Here's a sea fog, called a haar in Scotland. They occur on the east coast of England or Scotland in spring and summer, when warm air passes over the North Sea.
May 13, 2015
7.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal
Today's earthquake comes less than two weeks after a 7.9-magnitude quake left more than 8,000 dead and 18,000 injured there.
May 12, 2015
Unusual rainbow over Spain
Remember the quadruple rainbow image that went viral last month? Here's an even more unusual rainbow, caused by the wave nature of light.
May 12, 2015
Closest look yet at Ceres’ bright spots
Mysterious Spot 5 - most prominent of Ceres' bright spots - is shown to consist of many smaller spots in a new image from the orbiting Dawn spacecraft.
May 11, 2015
Amazing timelapse of volcanic sunset in Zimbabwe
Last night's sunset in Zimbabwe - May 10, 2015 - made spectacular by volcanic aerosols carried across the Atlantic from Chile's Calbuco volcano.
May 11, 2015
Proposal to find and zap space debris
Tiny debris particles cause wear and tear on active satellites. A team wants to find it and zap it with a laser to cause its fall back into Earth's atmosphere.
May 11, 2015
