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Tropical Storm Jerry formed over the central Atlantic Ocean Tuesday and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Wednesday. Jerry is the 10th named storm of a late-blooming season that has produced three hurricanes in just over two weeks. Tropical Storm Jerry has sustained winds of 45 mph as of 11 a.m ET Tuesday. The storm was about 1,300 …

Alaska’s Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow Knob into an island. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.) NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska’s coast that emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small mountain that was once …

The birth of an island is normally a process that requires the movement of vast tectonic plates over centuries, if not millennia. But in Alaska, a new island has popped up in just four decades. The two-square-mile (five sq km) landmass, known as Prow Knob, was once entirely surrounded by the deep ice of the Alsek Glacier. But NASA has revealed …

Global warming is a tricksy beast. In some places, it’s transforming once-lush environments into barren deserts; in others, it’s doing essentially the opposite – albeit through an irony-fueled, monkey’s paw kind of interpretation of “re-green the Earth’s deserts”. Now, a new set of photos from NASA has laid bare a striking example of the latter effect – and it’s right …

From the 1930s to the 1970s, barrels amounting to thousands of tons of chemicals were dumped off the coast of Los Angeles. It was an assault on the environment that would continue to unfold for decades to come, and worse still, we weren’t even sure what was inside the barrels. For a long time we thought it was the carcinogenic …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Popigai Crater in Siberia, formed by a massive meteorite impact, is the fourth-largest known on Earth. 💎 The impact at Popigai transformed graphite into industrial-quality diamonds due to extreme pressure. 🌌 North American Tektite strewn field possibly formed rings around Earth, influencing climate change. 🦖 The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event saw significant species loss, particularly among aquatic …

Hurricane Lorena has formed. Here’s how it will affect Texas.  San Antonio Express-NewsView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A toxic chemical that pollutes groundwater originates high in Earth’s atmosphere, a scientific flight has revealed. Perchlorates, a group of chlorine-containing chemicals that can disrupt thyroid function, form on particles of smoke and organic material in the stratosphere, between 6 and 31 miles (10 to 50 kilometers) above the planet’s surface, according to a new study. Scientists already knew that …

Around 1.1 billion years ago, the oldest and most tectonically stable part of North America — called Laurentia — was rapidly heading south toward the equator. Laurentia eventually slammed into Earth’s other landmasses during the Grenville orogeny to form the supercontinent Rodinia. Laurentia’s path during that period is known, thanks to paleomagnetism. By tracing the orientation and magnetism of rocks …

2 Supreme Court judges were found guilty of stress. They formed a band as their sentence  NPR Source link