Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Our Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have a Mesmerizing Side

Our CO2 emissions are warming the planet and making life uncomfortable and even unbearable in some regions. In July, the…

5 months ago

NOAA’s New Weather Satellite is Operational, and its Pictures of Earth are Gorgeous

You'd have to be in some kind of sense-of-wonder-repressed coma not to appreciate satellite images of Earth. If you are,…

2 years ago

The Streetlights in an Entire County Were Swapped to LEDs. Light Pollution got Worse

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry” - this famous paraphrase of Scottish poet Robert Burns…

3 years ago

Oops, low energy LEDs are increasing light pollution

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, the widespread use of LED lights could be bad…

7 years ago