4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (654+ words) Natural Area rises from the dry Soledad Basin north of Los Angeles, where enormous slabs of sedimentary rock tilt dramatically toward the sky. Some of the formations reach angles of around 50 degrees, giving the landscape its distinctive jagged appearance. Today’s…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (862+ words) producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting,...associate professor at Kyushu University’s Faculty of Arts and Science. It lands at an interesting moment....itself. Environmental educators tend to fall into one…...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1028+ words) every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that ocean reach back only to the middle of the 1800s. Until now, nobody could say whether the huge El Niño events of recent decades were unusual…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (978+ words) signal forecasters don’t use: a rare, heavier form of water that condenses sooner and evaporates more slowly...researchers fed that signal into a weather model, forecasts of wind, temperature and heavy rain improved as far as five days ahead. Kinya…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (697+ words) eventually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West Africa at a time when the...wind down. The pale brown haze stretches across much of Mali,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1222+ words) metals and nonmetals, possessing the unusual quirk of expanding… Antimony rarely receives the attention...metals and nonmetals, possessing the unusual quirk of expanding slightly as it freezes, and is crucial...States remains strongly dependent on foreign sources of the critical…...