Trump’s NASA budget cuts earth, climate science programs

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Trump’s NASA budget cuts earth, climate science programs

The Hill
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) programs on climate and earth science face cuts under President Trump’s first proposed budget blueprint.

WATCH LIVE: April the giraffe’s handlers notice “interesting behavior” that had them “on edge”

fox6now.com
HARPURSVILLE, New York – April the giraffe’s handlers said they had a long night on Wednesday, March 15th. In a new update, posted to Facebook on Thursday, Animal Adventure Park officials said they “witnessed some very interesting behavior that had …

The first solar eclipse to cross America in 99 years is coming. To some, it’s an act of God.

Myrtle Beach Sun News
Members of Slooh watched and captured the total solar eclipse from Indonesia on March 8, 2016. Slooh is a community observatory dedicated to bringing astronomy from the stars to screens, according to representatives.

How does a water bear survive drying out?

Christian Science Monitor
Tardigrades are incredibly tough critters. In a new study, scientists have pinpointed some of the genes behind the tiny animal’s survival skills.

Groovy: Scientists Say They’ve Found The First Fluorescent Frog

NPR
This frog really lights up a room. The South American polka dot tree frog initially appears unremarkable. But researchers in Argentina recently got a huge surprise when they shone an ultraviolet light on it, revealing that the creature is actually
BABW News  
Google likes to push boundaries, and they definitely did that with a shocking new image uploaded to their Street View tool. They’re among the most eye-popping pictures you are ever going to see on Google’s Street View tool: a boiling lake of lava from

Hungry Spiders Eating 800 Millions Tons Of Insects Per Year Are Nature’s Free Pest Control

Tech Times
The spiders are nature’s free pest control. They are not alone, however. Many other beneficial insects also exist to prevent the overpopulation of harmful insects in the environment.

TV broadcast satellite launched aboard Falcon 9 rocket

Spaceflight Now
The Falcon 9 rocket streaks downrange in this long exposure photo from atop the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Global warming could make us shorter

Yahoo News
New York, March 17 (IANS) The warming climate could make us shorter over time, suggests new research that found that mammals in the past had responded to extreme global warming events by shrinking in size.

Indonesia summons UK envoy over coral reef destruction

The Star Online
This combo pictures taken on March 4, 2017 shows the Caledonian Sky (top), a British-owned cruise ship, which smashed into pristine coral reefs causing extensive damage in Raja Ampat, a remote corner of Indonesia known as one of the world’s most …

Closest-yet star to black hole

EarthSky
Astronomers have found a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. That’s a very close orbit, possibly the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed for a star and black hole.

What’s with the humpback ‘super-groups’ forming near South Africa?

Christian Science Monitor
The often solitary humpback whale is starting to engage in mysterious group behavior, scientists say. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. Cover Story Trump vs.

Buzz Aldrin turns to VR to explain how we can get to Mars

Engadget
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut and the second person to set foot on the moon, may be 87, but he’s keeping his mind focused on the next space frontier.

Study: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs – KRISTV.com | Continuous News Coverage | Corpus Christi

KRIS Corpus Christi News
SYDNEY (AP) – Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus ‘Tiger Stripes’ Show Its Giant Ocean May Hold Alien Life

Tech Times
A new study has found that the southern polar region of Saturn’s ice covered moon Enceladus is much warmer than expected. The study also states that the subsurface ocean may closer to the surface than earlier thought to be.

NASA finds biofuels make air travel 70 percent greener

Engadget
Air travel releases almost 800 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, pushing us ever closer to our looming environmental catastrophe.

Dark Matter Did Not Dominate Early Galaxies

Scientific American
A schematic illustration showing how differences in the distribution of dark matter (red) alter the spin rates of modern-day spiral galaxies (left) and spiral galaxies from the early universe (right).

Time running out for world’s smallest porpoise

Deutsche Welle
Bad news for the vaquita as environmentalists find one of the last of its kind washed up on the shores of the Gulf of California. The animal is threatened by illegal gillnets.

Alien Life Could Be Island Hopping Between TRAPPIST-1 Planets

Gizmodo
The TRAPPIST-1 system has totally entranced Earthlings since NASA announced its discovery last month. For both astronomers and tinfoil hat believers (*raises hand*), TRAPPIST-1 is a sign of hope for finding alien life, since three of its planets are

Mesmerizing Blue Light Makes Tasmanian Waters Glow

Huffington Post
A blue glow lighting up the waters off the shores of Tasmania has captivated photographers and onlookers ― but it’s also a troubling example of how rising ocean temperatures have disrupted marine ecosystems.

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