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The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. Hurricanes are rated on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which includes five categories based on the storm’s sustained wind speeds. It also estimates possible damage to property, ranging from “some damage” to “catastrophic.” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an “above average” … Read more

Video: Hurricane Erin seen from space Video: Hurricane Erin seen from space 01:40 As Hurricane Erin hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was spotted from above by a camera on the International Space Station. The SpaceTV-1 camera system, which livestreams up to 4K resolution footage of Earth … Read more

The animals that live on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s sprawling 32,000 acres in Northern Virginia are connected by one thing: the threat of extinction. Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, more than 20 species at risk of extinction, including Mongolia’s Przewalski’s horse, which disappeared from the wild at the end of … Read more

Oslo —The world’s first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway’s coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating the site said Monday. The project by Northern Lights, which is led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, involves transporting and burying CO2 captured at smokestacks … Read more

Bay of Aarhus, Denmark — Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ago. This summer, divers descended about 26 feet below the waves close to Aarhus, Denmark’s second-biggest city, and collected evidence of a Stone Age … Read more

A dinosaur dubbed one of the “strangest” ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature. Spicomellus, which roamed the Earth 165 million years ago, is the world’s oldest ankylosaur, a herbivorous group of dinosaurs known for their tank-like bodies. Palaeontologists’ … Read more

The northern lights may return to the night sky over Canada and parts of the United States tonight, forecasters said. An eruption from the sun, known as a coronal mass ejection, occurred over the weekend and is expected to impact the Earth’s magnetic field late Monday into early Tuesday, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center said. When … Read more