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North Dakota Fossil Site Reveals When Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Long Island winters becoming less fierce as global warming raises the temperature

As global warming accelerates, winters are heating faster than summers, according to the research group Climate Central. That ...

Young Deer Playing in Little Girl's Pile of Autumn Leaves Is a Scene Straight From a Story Book

Other viewers noticed the small nubs on the young deer's head, which led them to believe this is a mom and her son. Perhaps she was the one watching from afar, and when she saw Kate's daughter tire ...

6 alternative ways to see the Northern Lights

This winter is predicted to be a particularly good one for spotting the green-hued celestial clouds in the night skies of the ...
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The Northern Hemisphere’s Very Own Giant Penguins (Sort Of)

Today, penguins are found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. But fossils have revealed giant lookalikes to these swimming ...

Escape hatch could spare undersized Arctic crabs

Researchers working in Norway's Barents Sea say a simple modification to snow crab pots could sharply reduce the number of ...
The New York Times

Northern Lights Shine for a Second Night

A geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible across a swath of the United States again on Wednesday, illuminating the skies as far south as Arizona. By Nazaneen Ghaffar and Amy Graff Weather ...
CBS News

Northern lights in Chicago dazzle as geomagnetic storm brings aurora borealis to Illinois

Meteorologist David Yeomans forecasts on CBS News Chicago weekdays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., and reports on the Climate Watch team. The northern lights were visible Tuesday night across the Chicago area, ...
Reuters

Wildfires, rising temperatures imperil northern hemisphere forests, UN says

GENEVA, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Record wildfires and rising temperatures are threatening decades of forest growth in the northern hemisphere, potentially turning vital carbon sinks into carbon emitters, a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Earth Is Getting Dimmer—and the Northern Hemisphere Is Losing Brightness Faster Than Scientists Expected

New research reveals that Earth's Northern Hemisphere is growing darker faster than the Southern Hemisphere is. Bill Anders, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Earth has been dimming for decades, ...
Gizmodo

The Odd Symmetry Between Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres Is Breaking Down

Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar commonality—or at least they used to. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...
Scientific American

Earth Is Getting Darker, Which Could Accelerate Global Warming

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial green. The luminosity of this image is the result of the sun’s rays shining ...