The fast-moving fire that ripped through Maui's historic town of Lahaina killed more than 90 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, but power ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world.
Environment
Jul 1, 2023
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In the high altitudes of the European Eastern Alps, the number of detected lightning strikes has doubled in the course of the last 40 years. Causes for this are to be found in the effects of the climate crisis. A team of ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2023
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Studying lightning is as hard as you might expect.
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2023
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Everyone has seen lightning and marveled at its power. But despite its frequency—about 8.6 million lightning strikes occur worldwide every day—why lightning proceeds in a series of steps from the thundercloud to the earth ...
General Physics
Dec 2, 2022
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For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn't have had better timing.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2022
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Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 meters long, mosasaurs looked like a Komodo dragon with ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 8, 2022
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Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Montana have developed a way to forecast which of the Great Basin's more than 60 million acres have the highest ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2022
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The latest test of NASA's giant Moon rocket SLS has been suspended to allow for a SpaceX rocket to launch later this week, the US space agency announced Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Apr 6, 2022
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NASA's dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket is off until at least this weekend because of a pair of technical problems that kept stalling a fueling test.
Space Exploration
Apr 5, 2022
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