Live Science has an interesting story this week about how scientists are using artwork from past years to study the atmospheric content of particles put out by erupting volcanoes. According to the story, by looking at the color of the sky in the paintings, they can determine the scattering properties…
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Here is an interesting set of photos of a small development on the North Sea taken from 2001 to the present which shows how much the coast there has eroded over the last couple of decades. We should be glad that our geology in the Southeast is a bit different…
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If I am asked if I like the mountains or the beach better, I will choose the ocean every time. So I was excited to see this new series of photos of ocean waves in stormy conditions. You can read about the artist and see some of the images at…
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If you like satellite images of Earth, you might enjoy this video which captures some historic views of the Earth from various vantage points in space. It’s put together by NASA and is about four minutes long. You can view it at https://earthsky.org/space/earth-from-space-photos-video.
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Atlas Obscura has a fascinating look at an unusual weather phenomenon–holes in the fog cover that occur over cities in India. A recent study was originally done to see how pollution in those cities affected the formation of fog. But what scientists noticed was that holes in the fog banks…
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Atlas Obscura provided a link today to a website devoted to photographic images of the world’s oldest trees, taken by Beth Moon from San Francisco. If you love trees and the natural world, you will be amazed at these amazing trees. You can read about it and see the photos…
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The Atlantic posted a series of photos taken this week in Puerto Rico, where 450,000 homes out of 1.5 million are still without power months after Hurricane Marie. Imagine trying to live in conditions like this. Restoration of power and clean-up of all the debris will take years, and that…
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