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Small asteroid zipped through Earth’s atmosphere
The IAU confirmed that the asteroid originally designated ZLAF9B2 – now called 2018 LA – disintegrated at a height of 30 miles (50 km) over South Africa on June 2, 2018.
June 3, 2018
Wildfire smoke messing with orangutans’ eating and sleep
“They sounded raggedy, a little like humans who smoke a lot,” said a researcher who studies orangutans in the Indonesian forests.
June 3, 2018
2018 Atlantic hurricane season outlook
Atlantic hurricane season starts today. Experts are forecasting a 75% chance that the 2018 season will be near- or above-normal, thanks in part to a weak El Niño.
June 1, 2018
2017’s costliest hurricanes
Harvey, Irma and Maria - all 2017 hurricanes - are among the top 5 costliest Atlantic hurricanes since record-keeping began in 1851.
June 1, 2018
Today is Walt Whitman’s birthday
"Love the earth and sun and the animals ..." - Walt Whitman
May 31, 2018
Top 10 new species 2018
This year's list includes a towering tree and a tiny, single-celled protist, as well as a rare great ape and the fossil of an Australian marsupial lion.
May 29, 2018
On and in extinction
"I am living a few hundred feet above a scar, a surface representing the worst disaster ever inflicted on planet Earth."
May 29, 2018
Lightning sprites over Oklahoma
My best sprite lightning capture to date, said long-time observer Paul Smith.
May 28, 2018
When was Earth’s 1st snow?
A new study suggests our planet got its 1st snowfall about 2.4 billion years ago, after a lot of land rose swiftly from the sea and set off dramatic changes on Earth.
May 27, 2018
Scientists track major freshwater change
'What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change,' they said. Over 14 years, Earth's wet land areas got wetter. Dry areas got drier. They also reported multiple hot spots resulting from groundwater depletion.
May 24, 2018
