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Model of a big white penguin next to photo of a woman.

Monster penguin was as tall as a person

Posted by in Earth | 2 weeks ago

An extinct species of giant penguin – over 5 feet (1.6 meters) tall – has been identified from fossils found in New Zealand.

Hurricane Dorian: Why it’s so destructive

Posted by in Earth | Human World | 2 weeks ago

Dorian, the 2nd most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, has devastated the Bahamas, with the death toll expected to rapidly rise as rescue work gets under way.

Wow! Night skies and petroglyphs

Posted by in Earth | 2 weeks ago

Gorgeous night skies over North America’s best petroglyphs and ruins – and don’t miss 2018’s Super Blue Moon lunar eclipse (at 1:03) – in Skyglow’s newest video.

Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line

Posted by in Earth | Human World | 2 weeks ago

If you go by cartoons and T-shirts, you might think evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But evolution has no endpoint in mind.

Hurricane Dorian viewed from space

Posted by in Earth | Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

NASA astronaut Christian Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Monday, September 2, 2019. The station orbits more than 200 miles (300 km) above Earth.

Why the Amazon is burning: 4 reasons

Posted by in Earth | Human World | 3 weeks ago

Nearly 40,000 fires are burning in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season. Don’t blame dry weather, say environmentalists. These Amazonian wildfires are a human-made disaster.

In 1966, 1st photo of Earth from the moon

Posted by in Earth | Human World | Space | 4 weeks ago

NASA released this 1st moon photo of Earth on August 23, 1966, via its spacecraft Lunar Orbiter 1. Years later, it used digital technology to restore the photo and reveal more detail.

Snow algae thrives in extreme conditions

Posted by in Earth | 1 month ago

On tall ice structures high in the Chilean Andes, researchers found algae growing on snow. They don’t entirely understand how the algae are able to bloom.
Photo showing the extent of the summer dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico according to sampling data

Large 2019 dead zone in Gulf of Mexico

Posted by in Earth | 1 month ago

This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone of oxygen-depleted waters is the 8th largest ever recorded.
Rain over mountains.

It’s raining plastic in the Rocky Mountains

Posted by in Earth | Human World | 1 month ago

A USGS study identified plastic in more than 90% of rainwater samples taken from across Colorado.