March 16, 2022. Two successive atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023, bearing rain, snow, and strong winds. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power as the storm toppled trees, unleashed...
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December 25, 2022. The town of Mountain Pass, California, is home to the largest rare-earth element mine in the U.S. Its story began in the 1940s, when prospectors went...
March 10, 2023. Doctors and public health experts agree that breathing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can be harmful to human health. The airborne particles—thirty times smaller than the width of human...
February 21, 2023. In February 2023, sea ice around Antarctica reached the lowest extent ever observed since the start of the satellite record in 1979. But despite several recent years of...
November 24, 2022. At an elevation of more than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) in the Bolivian Andes, Potosí is one of the highest cities in the world. Higher yet...
March 10, 2023. A passing tropical low dumped several days of downpours on Australia’s Northern Territory in early March 2023. The surge of rain pushed rivers beyond their banks and forced...
ITER workforce. A TRULY COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNITY. Four times as large as the Vatican City State, but slightly smaller than the Principality of Monaco, the ITER international enclave covers 180...
March 17, 2023 by Sam Illingworth. Feathered ghosts of winter seastumble through the tapestry,flecks of white and pearlskirting squallsbefore the blizzard’s blast;wild whiteoutswashing cleanthe endsof the Earth.Shaken by the sky’s frozen...
A researcher takes a close look at a coral reef near Little Cayman island in the Caribbean Sea in 2016. Photo by, Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State University. Gulf of...
February 11, 2022 To February 14, 2023. The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that shook parts of Türkiye and Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction, some of which extended...