Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA’s ground-breaking Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full. As CBS News reports, to put it another way, […]
As rescue teams continue searching for missing people following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border, Earth scientists reviewed satellite imagery for clues to the cause and assessed the devastation. As AP News reports, the flooding last week which killed at least 800 people and left more than 3,000 missing in Nepal and Tibet, from over two dozen different […]
A large tropical wave of low pressure emerged off the coast of Africa at the start of this week. It has a high chance of becoming the next tropical depression, but it faces significant obstacles to further development and could struggle to intensify into a tropical storm or hurricane by next week. As AccuWeather reports, the next […]
Months of summer heat, sunshine, and limited rainfall have dried vegetation and depleted soil moisture across much of the western and south-central United States, increasing the risk of wildfires. As AccuWeather reports, damaging fires this summer in Utah, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and west of Fort Worth, Texas, show how quickly flames can spread through tinder-dry […]
From the “Jaws” to the tornado-tossed predators of the “Sharknado” movies, films have long portrayed sharks as objects of summer fear. But now, as Reuters reports, when a shark cuts through the waters off the U.S. East Coast, it may be doing more than hunting. It may also be gathering data that helps scientists understand the potential intensity of a […]
The nation’s scorching summer – which featured the hottest July on record – is almost in the rearview mirror, and attention now turns to the season of pumpkin spice, falling leaves and, hopefully, mercifully cooler temperatures. However, as USA Today and AccuWeather report, this year, it may take longer than usual for summer warmth to fade, in […]
A new tropical threat is brewing for Hawaii about a week after Hurricane Lala brought torrential rain, flash floods, mudslides and damaging winds. A tropical rainstorm southeast of the islands could strengthen into a hurricane before approaching Hawaii this weekend. As AccuWeather reports, how much of an impact this strengthening rainstorm will have on the Big Island […]
The United States’ largest reservoir, Lake Mead, has reached its lowest level on record as the drought-stricken West faces a growing water crisis. As USA Today reports, the giant reservoir created by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River outside Las Vegas dropped to a record-low elevation Aug. 7, reaching 1,040.5 feet. The lake provides water […]
A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s Flores region on August 15 struck at 5:58 am local time at a depth of about 10 kilometres, with its epicentre about 68 kilometres (42 miles) north-northwest of Ende in East Nusa Tenggara, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Indonesia’s disaster management agency said at least 51 people were killed, […]
2025 was called by many, “the year of the floods,” but residents across the Midwest, especially in flood-ravaged Indiana, where back-to-back extreme rain events and flash floods have killed at least 6 and broken a 100 year-old record, would disagree. What everyone can agree on, is that these massive summer rain events and resulting flooding […]