Category: Environment
Earth’s continuing warming trend reveals 2018 as fourth warmest year in modern record
“ … impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt — in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change.”
NASA’s InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to study planet’s deep interior
Today, Mars received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, […]
Get your free 2019 ‘Wild Things of Harford County’ community calendar
On Tuesday, November 13, Harford County-based design and marketing firm Sonipak Design & Marketing hosted their annual calendar release party to share their 2019 community calendar “Wild Things of Harford […]
NASA: Three-million-year-old crater discovered beneath the ice in Greenland
On November 14, NASA reported that an international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice […]
November 19: Chiefs vs Rams game moving from Mexico City to Los Angeles
On November 13, the NFL announced that it will move the Monday, November 19, Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Rams game originally scheduled for Estadio Azteca in Mexico City […]
California wildfires updates: Death, destruction, celebrity homes destroyed in Malibu
Wildfires across the State of California continue to devastate the northern and southern portions of the state. As of this writing, 31 people have died; and at least 200 people […]
Free boarding for pets displaced by wildfires in Southern California
On November 9, VCA Animal Hospitals announced that select VCA hospitals in Southern California are offering free boarding assistance to dogs, cats, and other species to families affected by the fires […]
After 11 years, NASA’s Dawn Mission runs out of gas around dwarf planet Ceres
On November 1, NASA reported that the space agency’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed […]
NASA and ULA launch ICESat-2 rocket to track changes in Earth’s ice measurements
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. today, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented […]
Historical wild elephant relocation begins today in Zimbabwe
The Government of Zimbabwe is permitting and supporting the relocation of about 100 wild elephants in what’s being called one of the largest relocations in history. Beginning today, the elephants will […]
