The persistent drumbeat of warm temperatures around the world last month made for the fifth warmest June on record and the first half of the year the fourth warmest for the planet.
June 2018 was 5th warmest on record for the globe
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NASA's GPM Sees Another Dangerous Typhoon Threatening Japan
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided a rainfall and cloud analysis on powerful Typhoon Jongdari as it moves toward Japan. Jongdari follows another powerful typhoon that made landfall in Japan earlier this year.
Engineers use Tiki torches in study of soot, diesel filters
Chemical engineers testing methods to improve efficiency of diesel engines while maintaining performance are getting help from a summer staple: Tiki torches.
How to improve critical hurricane-related supply chains
Researchers from the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab have released a new report on critical supply chains during hurricanes and how they might be better managed in future U.S. disasters.
X-Ray Technology Reveals Never-Before-Seen Matter Around Black Hole
In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary system Cygnus X-1. Their findings, which were published in Nature Astronomy this month, may help scientists further understand the physics of strong gravity and the evolution of black holes and galaxies.
Glaciers in East Antarctica also ‘imperiled’ by climate change, UCI researchers find
A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level.
