Spectacular Fossils Discovered from Prehistoric Rainforest Reveal Intimate Details From 11 Million Years Ago
Hundreds of immaculately preserved fossils recently found in Australia offer a view into the continent’s early Miocene period as clearly as in a family photo album. Set in an iron oxide mineral known as goethite, there are leaves belonging to more than 50 species of plants, fossilized flowers, fish, insects, arachnids, even a fossilized feather. […]
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Volcano eruption in Tonga was a once-in-a-millennium event
The underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption has already triggered a tsunami, a sonic boom and thousands of lightning bolts, and could now lead to acid rain
Tonga volcano felt around the world
The Tonga volcano and ensuing tsunami were felt around the world. The January 15, 2022, event affected the shores of places as far away as Oregon while the pressure wave moved across the globe.
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Shackleton expedition to magnetic south pole
On January 16, 1909, a team of Antarctic explorers thought they’d found the magnetic south pole. The magnetic south and north poles wander every year.
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After the Boulder fire, a corona around the sun
Corona around the sun, caused by thin clouds in front of the sun, or perhaps pollen, after the devastating Marshall Fire in Boulder County, early January 2022.
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Moon and bright stars on January 12, 13 and 14
Look for the moon and bright stars on the evenings of January 12 to 14. You’ll see the Pleiades and Aldebaran close by the waxing moon.
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WA legislators prepare for long list of climate change bills – InvestigateWest
Lawmakers could look at more than a dozen climate proposals addressing carbon reduction and other environmental issues. By John Stang / Crosscut.com / Jan. 11, 2022 More than a dozen climate change proposals are expected to come before the Washington…
Trane Technologies’ Thermo King to Reduce Global Warming Potential of Transport Refrigeration by Nearly Fifty Percent – WDRB
SWORDS, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan 10, 2022– Thermo King®, the transport refrigeration brand of global climate innovator Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced it will be first in the industry to transition to a lower global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant as standard in…
Astronomers Capture Black Hole Eruption Spanning 16 Times the Full Moon in the Sky
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from our nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole. The emission is powered by a central black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A, about 12 million light years away. As the black hole feeds on in-falling gas, it ejects material at near light-speed, causing âradio bubblesâ […]
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Black hole eruption the size of 16 full moons
Scientists used the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to take the most detailed image yet of the black hole eruption inside galaxy Centaurus A.
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