October 24, 2022 to March 26, 2023. An enormous iceberg located off the Antarctic coast for more than two decades finally started moving out to sea in late 2022....
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March 11, 2023 to April 9, 2023. Flash flooding from heavy rains killed dozens and affected 300,000 people in Ethiopia and Somalia in March 2023. The damaging flooding came after the...
April 14, 2023 by Sam Illingworth. They rise from the dark,a cloud of wingsa swarm of hungera thirstfor us.They hoverdivepierce the skinand drink their fill,leaving onlytheir blotted note of blood –a...
February 26, 2023. Blooms of the harmful algae Karenia brevis occur regularly along the west coast of Florida, where they can add a green, brown, red, or black hue to the...
British Antarctic Survey field camp on Pine Island Glacier.Author, Polargeo. Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica’s ice...
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ITER France. International Peaceful Nuclear Fusion Energy. Chinese Government Assistance and Involvement.
This in-cryostat feeder will supply electrical power and cryogenic fluids to some of the top correction coils of the ITER machine. YET ANOTHER MAGNET FEEDER FROM CHINA. ITER will rely...
April 7, 2023 by Sam Illingworth. My body is a clockout of sync;a sparrowhawkfrozen on the wire,a fish gaspingin the clouded air.My mind is a shadow,always lurking –lost in the corner,like...
March, 2023. Nearly every spring and summer since 2011, a giant bloom of seaweed has developed in the central Atlantic Ocean. Patches of floating brown seaweed—known as Sargassum—have stretched from...
March 27, 2023. In Spain, fires typically become severe in June as summer heat arrives. But in 2023, the fire season got off to an early start with an...
April 3, 2021 To April 1, 2023. On March 31, 2023, severe thunderstorms tore through the U.S. Midwest and Mid-South where they spawned dozens of tornadoes across seven states....