As The Associated Press (AP) reports, for the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought, federal officials announced Tuesday. Though the cuts will not result in any immediate new restrictions — like banning […]
California has set a hugely ambitious goal to build up its offshore wind industry. The Golden State is aiming to reach 25,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2045, about as much as all of Europe has today. The target, set by the California Energy Commission last week, is the biggest commitment any state has […]
New Finnish-Norwegian research published on August 11 reveals that Arctic global warming is happening nearly four times as fast as the entire globe. It’s a phenomenon known as “Arctic amplification.” “We show that during 1979-2021, the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe, and provide evidence that climate models struggle to simulate […]
Throughout the first half of 2022, people wanting to get a glimpse of a planet in the night sky have had to wake up before the crack of dawn as every planet visible to the naked eye — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — have been early-morning objects. However, by mid-August, Saturn will make […]
At the start of every year, stargazers flip through their calendars and mark down the dates of big astronomy events ranging from eclipses to planetary alignments. The annual Perseids meteor shower is wildly popular and usually one of these can’t-miss events. This year the shower will peak between August 11-12, according to the American Meteor […]
As AccuWeather reports, heavy thunderstorms on Friday dumped nearly a year’s worth of rain over the Death Valley National Park in just three hours, resulting in flash flooding that damaged dozens of vehicles, closed roads throughout the park and trapped roughly 1,000 visitors and staff, officials said. “Rain this weekend was a historic event,” the […]
The final supermoon of 2022 will rise just as the dog days of summer come to a close, but it could have a negative effect on a separate hotly anticipated astronomical event. The conclusion of the dog days of summer will kick off a flurry of astronomical events in the night sky, including two highly-anticipated […]
In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. According to GTSC’s Homeland Security Today (HS Today), this week, Saildrone launched two saildrones into the […]
Not everyone is sweltering in the seemingly never ending summer heat. Some of the reptilian variety actually thrive in it. Rattlesnakes, specifically. Hayley Crowell, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, and her team of researchers set out with the goal of finding out just what range of temps help snakes function at their […]
Yet another wildfire broke out in Northern California at the Oregon border over the weekend. The McKinney fire was exacerbated by winds from thunderstorms this weekend, causing significant growth, burning more than 51,000 acres Sunday afternoon, officials said. According to CAL FIRE. It is currently 0% contained. The McKinney fire started on Friday in Siskiyou […]