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By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 7, 2020 2:20:14 pm The Great Barrier Reef is facing a critical period of heat stress over the coming weeks following the most widespread coral bleaching the natural wonder has ever endured, scientists said Friday, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo: Randy…

WASHINGTON — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is moving to close the computer modeling gap between the United States and international weather and climate agencies, such as the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).The oceans and atmosphere agency has signed a contract that will provide two new supercomputers…

Rejoice! If you’ve missed your daily fix of seeing views of our rotating Earth from space, NOAA announced that its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is now back in action. The deep space satellite, which produces incredible full-disk images of our Blue Marble, has been offline since June 27, 2019…

Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts. Charged particles from the Sun get trapped in our…

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I was devastated to hear about the tornadoes that plowed through Tennessee earlier this week. At the time of writing, 22 fatalities were confirmed. Downtown Nashville was significantly impacted, and my mind vectored right back to the tornado that plowed through Atlanta over a decade ago. In both cases, nocturnal…

Three-month outlook from NOAA -- March, April, May 2020 (NOAA)DETROIT – It’s feeling like spring around Metro Detroit this week -- and we’re not complaining.Starting today, and lasting for at least the next week or so (and maybe longer), we’ll be enjoying above average temperatures and not that much rain.Highs…

View Slideshow Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now at the highest level they’ve been since the Pilocene Era, 3 million years ago, when giant camels roamed arid land above the Arctic Circle. According to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report, in 2018, the global average…

US wealth gapSince 2007 the bottom 50% has had zero or negative wealth (i.e., debt).1980 Top 10% of people: 65% of wealth Middle 40% of people: 34% of wealth Bottom 50% of people: .01% of wealth 2014Top 10% of people: 73% of wealth Middle 40% of people: 27% of wealth Source:…

Hello, beautiful.  NOAA/MBARI/public domain As the name might suggest, the monkeyface prickleback isn't the prettiest of fish. What it lacks in looks, it makes up for in savoriness. Scientists at the University of California, Irvine studied the genome (an organism's set of genetic instructions) of Cebidichthys violaceus, a fish more evocatively…