More than 1,000 NOAA employees have lost their jobs since the DOGE cuts began. (Photo credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The first 10 weeks of the Trump administration have sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Many expected…
The Moon’s shadow moved quickly across North America at over 1,500 mph during the total solar eclipse. (This video has been sped up considerably. In real time, it lasted about 4 hours.) (Image credit: NOAA/CIRA/RAMMSB) These stunning satellite images show…
Researchers have discovered trees in Panama’s lowland rainforest that use lightning to their advantage. (Photo: pawopa3336/Getty Images) Lightning is often seen as a symbol of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees with its strikes. However, in the lowland rainforests…
In the new paper, the researchers refer to the Casiquiare River (flowing north-south in the center of this image), which connects the Orinoco River (flowing east-west) to the Rio Negro, as a “hydrological analogue of a wormhole between two galaxies.”…
Recent research sheds light on how Pangea broke apart 135 million years ago. (Image credit: Discovery Access via Getty Images) New evidence suggests the break between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a turbulent event. The breakup…
Between March 1 and 20, the polar vortex moved from the Arctic to the Northern European region. (Image credit: NOAA Climate) A new animation shows that a major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has shifted the ring of wind…
The Rainbow Mountains in China formed around the same time as the Himalayas. (Photo credit: Tom Till via Alamy) As the name suggests, China’s Rainbow Mountains are multi-colored formations in the northwest of the country. The landscape in the area…
(Image credit: Mtreasure via Getty Images) Forecasters say the central United States could face historic flooding this week as heavy rains and thunderstorms repeatedly hit the same areas. AccuWeather has warned of a 1-in-1,000-year flood risk in northeast Arkansas and…
The bottom of North America may be ‘leaking’ down into the mantle. (Photo credit: Timothy Hodgkinson via Alamy) Scientists say an ancient plate of crust deep beneath the Midwest is pulling significant amounts of modern North American crust into the…
Researchers have removed a 98-foot core from the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize to study tropical cyclone patterns over the past 5,700 years. (Image credit: Schafer & Hill/Getty Images) Tropical cyclones in the Caribbean…
A large sponge and a cluster of anemones are spotted among other life forms beneath the George VI Ice Shelf in the Bellingshausen Sea. (Image credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) A massive iceberg that broke away from an Antarctic glacier…
In 2014, a huge, lonely cloud ring with a diameter of about 280 miles was recorded in the central Pacific Ocean. (Image credit: NASA/Terra/MODIS) This stunning satellite image shows a colossal, near-perfect cloud circle that formed in the heart of…