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Artwork shows Xplore’s Xcraft probe observing the sun in different spectral bands. (Xplore Illustration)Seattle-based Xplore has won a $670,111 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look into the feasibility of sending a solar observatory to a gravitational balance point that’s a million miles from Earth. From that…

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, right, gives a tour to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, of the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Doral, Fla. Wolf, who also toured the National Hurricane Center, spoke during a news conference on the on DHS's operational readiness for the…

There are two lightly reported stories in the news that really highlight the norm-breaking and criminality of the Trump administration. One involves the nation’s inspectors general and the other the administration’s treatment of science. Anyone who might care about these subjects is most likely already in Biden’s camp, but they should get wider circulation…

Markers aren’t magic — Report finds problems but can’t talk to the people who ordered a key statement. Scott K. Johnson - Jun 16, 2020 4:40 pm UTC Enlarge / President Trump points to a map that has undergone some post-printing modifications. Chip Somodevilla President Trump not only refused to…

The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. Last month was the joint-hottest May on record, according to new data, signalling that 2020 is likely to have some of the highest temperatures the planet has experienced in modern history.…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. agency that warns of dangerous weather violated its policy on scientific integrity with a statement last year backing a tweeted forecast by President Donald Trump about the path of a hurricane, according to a report released on Monday. Trump wrote on Twitter…

Photo: Evan Vucci (AP)Top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration violated the agency’s scientific integrity rules when they debased themselves to back up Donald Trump’s incorrect assertion that Hurricane Dorian could strike Alabama last year, an internal investigation has shown. Regardless, everyone involved appears to be bound to…

by Debra Werner — June 15, 2020 NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, produced this image of Hurricane Irma in 2017 with observations from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System. Credit: NOAA and…

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According to data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the global average temperature for last month (which was 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit/15.7 degrees Celsius) tied for the hottest May we've had in 141 years of record keeping. The last (and only other) time May was that warm was in 2016.The…