2020

SUnknownExploring Antarctica's Active Volcano Mt. Erebus: Antarctic Extremes

Tue, May 05, 2020

Mount Erebus is the world's southern most active volcano and is one of only eight in the world that has a lava lake. The volcano exists on a rift where the continent of Antarctic is spreading allowing magma to rise to the surface. Steam from the volcano freezes near the rim creating ice fumeroles that host living bacteria.

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SUnknownWhy the Fastest Place on Earth Is Disappearing

Sun, Jan 10, 2021

PBS Terra visits the Bonneville Salt Flats with geologists who are working to determine why the salt is no being replenished there as in other salt flats around the world.

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SUnknownFoxes: Dog Hardware, Cat Software: Animal IQ

Wed, Mar 17, 2021

Foxes are canidaes, in the same family as dogs. But they differ a bit from dogs in being more independent or loners. A few scientists have worked on domesticating foxes and they domesticate well becoming as friendly to humans as dogs. But they retain certain behavioral differences.

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SUnknownElephants: Do Giant Brains Mean More Smarts? Animal IQ

Sun, Apr 18, 2021

Elephants have huge brains with more neurons that people. But how smart are they? Since they look at the world in a different way than people we'll have to be a little bit clever to figure that out.

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SUnknownExtreme Wildfire: Deadly, but Not for the Climate?

Sun, Aug 15, 2021

Firenados are tornado sized vortexes of fire that form within wildfires. The heat of a wildfire causes air to rise into the sky pulling more air in at the surface. As the fire rises can begin spinning under the proper surface conditions creating a vortex of fire that draws even more air into the fire.

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SUnknownIs the Dust Bowl Happening Again?

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

The Dust Bowl in the United States may have ended in the 1930s. But dust storms continue world wide claiming lives every year from car accidents involving blinded drives. And there's more than one way to create a dust storm. Here's what causes them.

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SUnknownWhy Earth's Newest Glacier is Inside an Active Volcano

Wed, Oct 06, 2021

Mount Saint Helens' 1980 eruption left a steep caldera that is largely shaded from the sun. Combined with heavy snowfall the result is a glacier that is growing fifteen meters deeper every year even though steam from volcanic vents is melting ice from below.

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SUnknownWhat Are Wild Coyotes Doing in the Big City?

Wed, Nov 03, 2021

A large predator, the coyote, is thriving in American cities, even in the heart of their downtowns. While many think they are living off people and just passing through, researchers have found they are permanent residents that don't rely on people and thrive best by avoiding them and their vehicles.

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SUnknownWant to Solve Wildfires and Drought? Leave it to Beavers!

Wed, Nov 17, 2021

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SUnknownThe Secret Islands of the Everglades

Wed, Dec 22, 2021

The Florida Everglades contains thousands of tiny islands known as tree islands. They are essential habitat for wildlife and, historically, for people as well. But recent mismanagement of water flow in the Everglades has caused localized flooding eroding some seventy percent of the islands.

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SUnknownIs This the Real Reason Weather is Getting Wilder?

Tue, Jan 25, 2022

Climatologists studying the jet stream have seen it moving north over the past twenty years (as of 2022.) The cause is the warming arctic. The result is warmer weather in the southern latitudes resulting in dryer or wetter weather depending on location.

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SUnknownSolar activity increasing right now: New research reveals where will be most impacted

Mon, Feb 21, 2022

Coronal mass ejections from the Sun are known to produce geomagnetic storms that in turn create power surges here on Earth that damage electronic equipment. It was assumed that the more the sever the storm the more damage it would cause but recent (2022) research indicates the Earth's geography is a more important factor.

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SUnknownEarth's History Is Hidden in These Strange Maps

Wed, Jul 17, 2024

LIDAR is an imaging technology that measures distance enabling underlying structures on the Earth's surface to be seen beneath the vegetation. In this example ancient river channels in the Channeled Scablands are presented.

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Living the Classical Life - The New Channel

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The Beagle and its two nations

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