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View from space: US city lights
Here's a satellite image of the United States at night.
December 26, 2012
Significant storm to affect the U.S. on Christmas
A Major storm system will bring an outbreak of severe storms across the U.S. southeast and a major winter storm across the center of the country on Christmas Day.
December 24, 2012
Gift giving: Wild dolphins to humans in Australia
Scientists think that gift giving among wild dolphins at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia is a form of play behavior.
December 23, 2012
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas!
Congratulations! You survived the end of the world, and Christmas is around the corner. Time to focus on that popular question: will we have a white Christmas?
December 21, 2012
Temperature records from nature reaffirm climate warming
In a large compilation, scientists used used 173 independent datasets - from natural sources such as ocean sediments - to show warming over the past century.
December 20, 2012
The aurora borealis and the coming Solar Maximum
Right now, there's huge excitement among those of us who hunt for the aurora borealis, also called the northern lights.
December 18, 2012
2012 extraordinary year for wildfires in US
Check out this map. The year 2012 has been extraordinary for wildfires in the United States.
December 16, 2012
2012 set to be warmest year ever recorded in US
2012 is likely to break 1998 for the warmest year ever recorded since record keeping began in the contiguous United States.
December 14, 2012
Invasive boa constrictors are spreading across Puerto Rico
It is illegal to own a boa constrictor on Puerto Rico. Scientists are trying to figure out where these snakes are coming from.
December 14, 2012
6.4-magnitude earthquake off coast of Baja California
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warming following the earthquake, which occurred at 2:36 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
December 14, 2012
