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...
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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...
February 26, 2023. In late February 2023, a sprawling storm system that brought rare snowfall to parts of California also fueled violent thunderstorms and tornadoes in the Southern Plains. In the...
February 10, 2023 To February 26, 2023. A powerful late-February storm brought blizzard warnings, cold rains, howling winds, and rare low-elevation snow to parts of southern California more accustomed...