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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…

A bizarre-looking fish could be the key to helping solve the world's hunger issue, according to a new study.Known as the Monkeyface Prickleback (scientific name: Cebidichthys violaceus), the fish has a digestive tract similar to humans, with both small and large intestines and an acidic stomach. It's also among the…

About a fifth of snow on one of Antarctica’s islands has vanished due to a recent heat wave. Record-breaking warm temperatures the continent experienced from Feb. 5 to Feb. 13 managed to melt 20 percent of snow on Eagle Island — an island located on the northwestern peninsula of Antarctica…

Winter Warmth — NOAA’s January summary is out, along with its outlook for spring. Scott K. Johnson - Feb 22, 2020 1:45 pm UTC NOAAWe’re off to a hot start in 2020, with January setting a new mark as the warmest instance of that month on record for the globe.…

Killer whales in Antarctica, as shown here, often display a yellow coloration due to diatom accumulation on their skin, evidence that they are not sloughing skin in frigid waters. Image collected by John Durban (NOAA Fisheries) and Holly Fearnbach (SR3) using a remotely controlled hexacopter drone at 100-foot altitude, authorized…

There is so much talking and opining about the status of the United States and its weather modeling capabilities these days. Candidly, it has gotten to the point that I sort of “eye roll” when I see a Tweet or Blog about it. Yes, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather…

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the United States will triple its operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity, and double its storage and interconnect speed, thanks to the installation of a pair…

Every 10 minutes, the relentlessly warming oceans absorb 50 megatons of energy, the amount of energy released when detonating the largest-ever atomic bomb. These warming seas — which soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth — harbor a particularly loud critter found all over the…