A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the surface.
Scientists Get the Lowdown on Sun’s Super-Hot Atmosphere
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California’s 2018 Wildfires Caused $150 Billion in Damages
In 2018, California wildfires caused economic losses of nearly $150 billion, or about 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire United States that year, and a considerable fraction of those costs affected people far from the fires and even outside of the Golden State.
Warning Labels Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in University Setting, Researchers Found
As municipalities have taxed sugar-sweetened beverages and schools and worksites have banned their sales, university researchers have found that simple warning labels on such beverages in a college cafeteria helped students reduce their reported consumption of drinks by 14.5 percent.
No Refuge from the Heat
Over the past several decades, marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a favored conservation tool.
Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic
A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central Greenland that melts the ice from below.
New Sunspot Cycle Could Be One of the Strongest on Record
In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be one of the strongest since record-keeping began.
