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Extinction threatens 60% of world’s primates
"The majority of primate species are endangered now. We are at a turning point where we must take action or lose many species during the next 50 years."
January 25, 2017
New Earth images from GOES-16
The satellite's 1st images since its launch a few months ago. GOES-16 provides 4 times the image resolution - 4 times more detail - than earlier GOES satellites. Weather forecasters are excited!
January 23, 2017
$40 billion a day for solar super-storms
The probability of another event like the 1859 Carrington event is - at any given time - low. But many believe it's "almost inevitable" one will occur, eventually. A new study explores the risks.
January 20, 2017
2016 hottest year for 3rd straight year
NASA and NOAA announced today that 2016 was the hottest year on record globally - and the 3rd year in a row of record warming - continuing a decades-long warming trend.
January 19, 2017
Watch soap bubbles freeze
A photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota captured this mesmerizing footage of soap bubbles freezing. It looks like time-lapse but it's actually in real time!
January 18, 2017
Huge iceberg set to break off Antarctica
An iceberg the size of Delaware is set to calve from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf. Only about 12 miles (19 km) still connect the ice chunk to the rest of the continent.
January 11, 2017
Weak La Niña follows potent El Niño
A year ago, the equatorial Pacific was pulsing with heat, due to one of the most intense El Niños on record. But the current La Niña has been relatively quiet.
January 11, 2017
Chickens are intelligent, caring, complex
Think chickens are clueless? Not so, says a new study. Instead, chicken intelligence is underestimated.
January 6, 2017
New app identifies birds from photos
Snap a pic, and the (free) Merlin Bird Photo ID app will identify the bird. Once downloaded, it can go anywhere bird-watchers go, even places without cell service or Wi-Fi.
January 4, 2017
Aurora alert! Thanks to huge coronal hole
The hole is gigantic and facing Earth's way. Possible aurora sightings at the latitude of the northern U.S. – for example, in Michigan or Maine – on January 4 and 5.
January 4, 2017
