A solar eclipse will be visible over the Earth’s northern hemisphere on Thursday with parts of Canada and Siberia privy to the best view of the celestial event. The eclipse will be partial, which means the people in its shadow won’t be plunged into daytime darkness. Instead, people with the maximum visibility — and necessary […]
Greenland
Researchers measure decades of ‘scary’ Greenland ice melting
Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 — thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models. By the 1990s and 2000s, scientists were able to make pretty good estimates, although work from previous decades was unreliable due to less advanced technology. Now, researchers have recalculated the amount of ice lost in […]