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On This Day, Aug. 21: Hawaii becomes 50th state
On Aug. 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States.
United States triggers 'snapback' to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the United States has begun the process to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran that were removed following the signing of an Obama-era...
Advocates accuse ICE of serving pork, spoiled halal meals to Muslim detainees
Advocacy groups have accused U.S. immigration officials of providing pork and rancid halal meals to Muslim detainees at a Miami processing center.
Pentagon: It's time to bring microelectronics manufacturing to the U.S.
The U.S. government must entice companies to do more microelectronics manufacturing in the United States, the Pentagon's undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment said Thursday.
First daily surveillance of emerging COVID-19 hotspots
Over the course of the coronavirus epidemic, COVID-19 outbreaks have hit communities across the United States. As clusters of infection shift over time, local officials are forced into a whack-a-mole...
Watch: Beloved stalk of corn growing through sidewalk rescued after uprooting
A stalk of corn that became a local landmark and a viral sensation when it sprouted in a sidewalk crack in a South Dakota city was rescued by a local...
Southern California home sales, prices rose in July despite high unemployment
Southern California home prices rose 8.5% in July from a year earlier, as buyers rushed to take advantage of rock-bottom mortgage rates.
NASA gets a wide-angle view of hurricane Genevieve
NASA provided a series of photos of Hurricane Genevieve as it affected Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station provided wide-angle photos of Genevieve, showing...
Earth's anthropogenic carbon dioxide increase is unprecedented
A new measurement technology developed at the University of Bern provides unique insights into the climate of the past. Previous CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere could be reconstructed more accurately...
Thousands of fish turned up dead in Biscayne Bay. Coral bleaching might be next
Fish may not be the only victims of the pollution and hot temperatures that drove oxygen to insufficient levels in Biscayne Bay and led to a mortality event that shocked...
PG&E worker dies assisting firefighters with California wildfires
A utility worked died this week while assisting firefighters battling one of hundreds of wildfires dotting California, state fire officials said Thursday.
Anthropogenic CO2 increase is unprecedented
Even in earlier warm periods there were pulse-like releases of CO2 to the atmosphere. Today's anthropogenic CO2 rise, however, is more than six times larger and almost ten times faster...
Greenland ice sheet shows losses in 2019
The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record loss of mass in 2019. This was the finding of a team of international researchers after evaluating data from satellite observations and...
Past rapid warming levels in the Arctic associated with widespread climate changes
Using Greenland ice cores, new research is the first to confirm the longstanding assumption that climate changes between the tropics and the Arctic were synchronized during the last glacial period.
Larger variability in sea level expected as Earth warms
A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) identified a global tendency for future sea levels to...
Salvors begin sinking ship which ran aground off Mauritius
Salvage crews on Thursday began the process of sinking the broken stem of a Japanese-owned ship which ran aground off Mauritius, leading to a major oil spill and ecological disaster...
Tropical Storm Genevieve brushes Baja California Sur
Despite continued weakening from its peak as a Category 4 hurricane earlier this week, Genevieve remains a dangerous storm as it paralleled the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, on...
February lockdown in China caused a drop in some types of air pollution, but not others
Atmospheric scientists have analyzed how the February near-total shutdown of mobility affected the air over China. Results show a striking drop in nitrogen oxides, a gas that comes mainly from...
Past rapid warming levels in the Arctic associated with widespread climate changes
Abrupt climate changes during the Last Glacial Period, some 115,000 to 11,700 years ago, happened at the same time across a region extending from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere...
Reliable, accurate and complete count for 2020 Census is at risk
A UCLA report published today shows that the 2020 Census will severely undercount immigrants, low-income people and people of color. Two key reasons are the COVID-19 pandemic and a directive issued...
Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions
Pulse-like carbon dioxide release to the atmosphere on centennial time scales has only been identified for the most recent glacial and deglacial periods and is thought to be absent during...
Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period
Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period have been detected in a global array of palaeoclimate records, but our understanding of their absolute timing and regional synchrony is incomplete....
Greenland lost 532 billion tonnes of ice in a record melt last year, new study suggests
Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study...
Fossil leaves show high atmospheric carbon spurred ancient 'global greening'
Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and the hot climate off the time.
3D printing 'greener' buildings using local soil
Scientists report progress toward a sustainable building material made from local soil, using a 3D printer.
Three Gorges Dam hits record levels as flooding continues in China
Fear is growing again in China the Three Gorges Dam could be breached as rivers across the country continue to overflow and rise to record levels.
Watch: British man breaks Guinness record for fastest ice cream truck
A British inventor who set out to create a more environmentally friendly ice cream truck broke a Guinness World Record when the food-dispensing vehicle was declared the world's fastest.
Watch: Mercury Seven astronauts assemble in 'The Right Stuff'
Disney+ released a trailer for "The Right Stuff," a National Geographic series about the Mercury Seven astronauts.