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EARTH is set to have three unexpectedly shorter than average days in the coming weeks – and it’s taken scientists by surprise ...
Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has ...
Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.
The Earth is spinning slightly faster than before, and that means our days are becoming shorter by a tiny fraction of a ...
2020 was an extreme year for Earth's temperatures. But was it the hottest on record? El Niño is a periodic natural warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, while La Niña, which was observed toward ...
April 10, 2020 We’ll be wearing surgical masks this Earth Day too, but more as a matter of survival than of protest, and we won’t be pouring into the streets. Like everything else, protest ...
The Earth Day Network says thousands of cleanups have been scheduled in the United States. But you can’t have the largest mobilization in history for Earth Day 50 with just a Great Global Cleanup.
In 2020, astronomers thought they'd found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it's real.
NASA, NOAA and Berkeley Earth all released their assessments of Earth's temperature in 2020 on Thursday. The conclusion: 2020 was nearly tied with 2016 for the warmest year globally on record.
The Earth Day Network created a citizen science initiative called Earth Challenge 2020 with the U.S. Department of State's Eco-Capitals Forum and the Wilson Center in Washington that allows people ...