NOAA’s vast public weather data powers local forecasts. A private company alone can’t match it.
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and ...
When Did Ocean Acidity Allow Life To Start?
A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...
The science of snowflakes: See how they form and why no two are ever alike
Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.
The world's oldest continent that formed 4bn years ago is also the fastest moving
The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...
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Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps
The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.