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Plasma Fountain is in the North Pole of the Earth. The figure depicts the oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ions that gush into space from regions near the Earth’s poles. The faint yellow gas shown above the north pole represents gas … Continue reading →

A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated. New research says the Arctic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as few as 30 years instead of the … Continue reading →

An article published this week in Nature Geoscience shows that black carbon is responsible for 50 percent,  Arctic warming from 1890 to 2007. The paper by Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space (GISS) and Greg Faluvegi of … Continue reading →

Nearly one-third of all U.S. bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, with birds in Hawaii facing a “borderline ecological disaster,” scientists reported recently. The State of the Birds report, issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar along with … Continue reading →