Earth
Why Are There Seasons?
We’re in the middle of Summer here on Vancouver Island, the Sun is out, the air is warm, and the…
New U.S. Climate Map Shows Temperature Changes In HD. How To Prepare?
If you're interested to see how warm your neighborhood will look like at 2090, here's a chance. There's new data…
Cometary Collisions Could Have Created Life On Earth
The energy of comets smashing into Earth billions of years ago could have generated life out of the building blocks…
Why Does the Earth Spin?
In a classic episode of this video series, I did the calculations for how fast the Earth is spinning. We…
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Are We Martians? Chemist’s New Claim Sparks Debate
Are Earthlings really Martians ? Did life arise on Mars first and then journey on rocks to our planet and…
Massive ‘Grand Canyon’ Found Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice
There’s a “Chuck Norris fact” that says Chuck once went skydiving but promised never to do it again, saying one…
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Earthlings Wave at Saturn as Cassini Images Us
Earth Waves at Saturn and Cassini on July 19, 2013 From more than 40 countries and 30 U.S. states, people…
Earth’s Highest Clouds Shine at the “Top of the Orbit”
Looking for a new desktop background? This might do nicely: a photo of noctilucent "night-shining" clouds seen above a midnight Sun…
Stunning Aerial Tour of the Arctic
Enjoy this tour of the Arctic and Greenland, courtesy of the pilots of IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission to survey…
Why the North Pole Is Really a South Pole (and Vice Versa)
If you go out hiking this weekend and somehow find yourself hopelessly lost in the wilderness, but suddenly remember you…