Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano (lava flow shown) sits far from the nearest plate boundary. Kilauea and Hawaii’s other volcanoes are thought to be fueled by buoyant plumes of molten material...
Author: Deepak Bora
July 26, 2022 For much of July 2022, easterly winds have carried large plumes of Saharan dust over the Atlantic Ocean. At times, dust in the Saharan Air Layer has traveled as far...
July 16, 2022. As extreme summer heatwaves deepened droughts and fueled wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere, winter storms brewed south of the equator. In July 2022, back-to-back weather systems eased rainfall...
July 19, 2020. An astronaut took this photograph while the International Space Station (ISS) was cruising over the Arabian Peninsula and through the terminator, or day-night boundary. The oblique photo...
Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर), also called mTsho Mapham (Tibetan: མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།, Wylie: ma pham g.yu mtsho) or mTsho Ma-dros-pa locally; (Chinese: 瑪旁雍錯), is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers. near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The lake...
July 17, 2022. During the first week of July, NASA satellites began detecting signs that several wildland fires were burning in Russia’s far east. Two weeks later, several fires had grown much larger...
Higher Learning
Inorganic Chemical Fertilizer Application to Wheat Reduces the Abundance of Putative Plant Growth, Promoting Rhizobacteria.
By, Tessa E. Reid, Vanessa N. Kavamura, Maïder Abadie, Adriana Torres-Ballesteros, Mark Pawlett, Ian M. Clark, Jim Harris, Tim H. Mauchline. The profound negative effect of inorganic chemical fertilizer...
Rethinking reality Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to...
By, Alexandra Witze. State of emergency. Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days...
July 13, 2022. In June and July 2022, heatwaves struck Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as temperatures climbed above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in...