Fridays for Future US, in association with Youth Climate Strike LA unveils "SILENCED," an emotionally charged social campaign aimed at shedding light on the devastating impact poor air quality has on Los Angeles, a city grappling with climate change.
Shark Week, summer's most-anticipated programming event returns with Jason Momoa joining as host. Momoa is dedicated to protecting and preserving our oceans and will guide Shark Week audiences through the biggest annual celebration of sharks.
The multiplication, frequency and duration of heat waves are pushing humanity towards an unprecedented challenge: ensuring its survival by inventing a new society that will be able to adapt to these violent and sudden rises in temperature.
Revisiting the Dark Side of the Moon: Why NASA Won't Go Back for the Apollo 11 Cameras, an exclusive interview with Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator sheds new light on abandoned Apollo memorabilia and why NASA won't bring it home.
The PBS science series NOVA, a production of GBH, will premiere the one-hour film CHASING CARBON ZERO, Wednesday, April 26 at 9pm ET/8C on PBS, which investigates climate change goals and dissects the realities of the ambitious goals.
Leather has been around for centuries, and people still use it today since it looks great and lasts. Unfortunately, the leather industry requires large amounts of livestock to operate, which leads to increased emissions and forest loss.
A once-in-a-generation artic blast has plunged the northeast, from New York through the New England states effecting more than 25million residents, into a deep freeze coupled with gusting winds creating bitter, biting, subzero wind chills and temperatures.
Prince William and The Earthshot Prize revealed the 2022 prize winners, an accomplished group of entrepreneurs and innovators spearheading groundbreaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet, were awarded a £1 million prize at the second-annual awards ceremony.
Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida's southwest coast pummeling the region with sustained 155mph winds, downing trees, power lines, dumping rain, and driving deadly storm surge inland, as it slowly crawled across the state delivery catastrophic destruction.
NASA's James Webb Telescope, the world's largest and most powerful, continues to dazzle amateurs space buffs, astronomers, scientists, and astronauts everywhere with its dynamic images of deep space and the solar system including the recently released images of Jupiter.
The 2022 Hurricane Season is off to a slow start, even as meteorologists predict at least 16 named storms with three to five major Category 3, or higher storms, likely to make landfall sometime between September and October.
NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope, which has already transmitted the clearest pictures of the furthest galaxies man has seen, has now delivered the most vibrant images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light years away.
NASA has unveiled the first series of stunning deep space cosmic images from the James Webb Space telescope, a $10 billion-dollar joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
A nearly intact 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth was recently unearthed in the Klondike Gold Fields, of the Yukon Territory in Calgary Canada by a miner who was digging with a front loader when he felt something.
Yellowstone National Park, an oasis of pristine natural beauty, became the target of mother nature's fury after an atmospheric river and extreme snowpack melt merged creating unprecedented rain and overflowing rivers leading to apocalyptic flooding and catastrophic damage.
In the fourth major dig of the season, Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, announced the discovery in the village of Saqqara 250 sarcophagi tombs, and hundreds of bronze statues dating back 2500 years.
With the world’s resources slowly decreasing and an increased focus and public awareness on humanity’s impact on the planet, it’s time to reconsider sustainability as an option in all aspects of life, including sustainable footwear.
LOOKING FOR LIFE ON MARS, a one-hour special from PBS science series NOVA, a production of GBH Boston, will follow NASA's Mars 2020 mission, perhaps the most ambitious search yet for traces of ancient life on the red planet.
With the world watching, Perseverance, the most advanced Mars Rover to date, landed safely on the surface of the Red Planet to begin its mission of collecting rock samples and conducting field experiments to determine if ancient life existed.
Portions of the tail and pelvic girdle from a giant fossilized titanosaur, one of the largest known dinosaurs to roam the earth, was recently unearthed in Neuquén Province in Argentina's northwest Patagonia, by an Argentinian paleontologist team.
Hurricane Laura, a catastrophic Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall around midnight bringing with it, un-survivable storm surges along the Texas and Louisiana coastline of 15 to 20 feet and winds of 145mph.
The recent successful launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo 2 manned mission was the second most watched space launch in history after the Apollo Moon Landing July 20, 1969.
New Zealand is facing its third national tragedy of 2019 thrusting the nation into the global spotlight with the volcanic eruption of White Island and the confirmed deaths of 18 tourists who were touring the active site.
Hurricane Dorian, which slammed into The Abacos and Grand Bahama Islands pulverizing the archipelagos for more than 24 hours with Category 5 force winds leaving the Caribbean nation unrecognizable, has begun its slow crawl toward the eastern seaboard.
Jupiter's iconic imagery is changing, much to the disappointment of scientists around the world that have studied the third planet from the sun for hundreds of years, as its most prominent feature, the "Great Red Spot" shrinks.
For paleontologists The Badlands of North and South Dakota have again reveled their richness with the recent discovery of a 65million year-old Triceratops Skull by California college student Harrison Duran, 23, an amateur fossil excavator on a summer internship.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the strongest to hit the region in two decades, struck Southern California at about 10:33 AM, July 4, 2019, signaling to skittish SoCal residents the relative quiet period has ended and to expect significant aftershocks.
The incongruous arrival of polar bears in the Nouvelle Zemble archipelago once again questions the effects of global warming but it also highlights the unconsciousness and vanity of the human being in the face of a nature he has always believed to be able to enslave.
The Polar Vortex, that upper atmosphere deep cold that usually sits in the Antarctica region, is dropping in for a visit and will bring with it stunningly cold temperatures and wind chills unlike any seen in twenty years.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, has been euphoric since Insight safely landed on the Red Planet 15 Sols ago, Monday, November 26, beginning what will be the most concentrated study of the planet to date.
Two major earthquakes struck Anchorage, Alaska Friday morning, hitting just as businesses, schools and stores were opening for the day, sending frightened residents, into the streets, diving for cover and knocking local televisions stations off the air.
Hurricane Michael, which strengthened over the last six hours into a Category Four storm, with sustained winds of 130mph to 156mph, is quickly bearing down on the Florida Panhandle with landfall expected by Wednesday morning.
Hurricane Florence, a category four powerhouse with sustained winds of 140mph, quickly intensified over the warm waters of the Caribbean as it continued its northeast trajectory with landfall expectation, anywhere from the Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic states.
Tropical Storm Lane, downgraded Friday, has left the Big Island, Maui and parts of Oahu, fighting unprecedented flooding as the rainmaker dumped nearly 40inches on the Big Island triggering landslides, swollen rivers, falling trees, and destroyed roads.
Hurricane Lane, an intense and dangerous category 4 storm with sustained winds of 145mph, is barreling toward the Hawaiian Islands, at seven miles per hour, with the outer bands already drenching the coastal areas with heavy and damaging winds, rain and pounding surf.
NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Agency, recently released images of an animated low-flyer over of Jupiter's North Pole catching a major cyclones circled by eight smaller cyclones, producing an intense animated version of the actual weather patterns on Jupiter.
Hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic storm ever recorded, has caused an unprecedented precaution measure with Florida's Governor Rick Scott issuing a mandatory evacuation order for more than 5.6 million residents which account to nearly 25 percent of the state's population.
Two mummified bodies, well preserved and intact, were identified by Swiss forensic specialist as that of a husband and wife who disappeared nearly 75 years ago after telling their children they were going to feed the animals.
Juno, the unmanned orbital spacecraft that has been closing in on the giant gas planet for over a year, successfully completed a flyby that captured the closest images of Jupiter the world has ever seen.
After an exhausted archaeological expedition, covering two continents and spanning seven sites, geneticist Viviane Slon and her team collected seven samples which they believed would lead to a new discovery on the existence of prehistoric mammals.
From Washington D.C to New York City and as far west as Chicago, upwards of fifty million residents are bracing for Winter Storm Stella, which is expected to produce heavy snow totals, blizzard conditions, plummeting temperatures, and frigid wind chills.
A substantial winter blast is moving across much of the nation packing impressive snow totals, socking the eastern seaboard with a deep freeze, blanketing the South with sheets of ice and sending The Carolina's into a State of Emergency.
Temperatures are expected to plummet this week as the polar vortex, a weather phenomenon that forces cold air from the stratosphere, pushes an unseasonable blast of freezing cold air across much of the nation.
The year 2015 received the ominous warmest year on record title, and 2016 is likely to be even hotter. It's becoming clear that these warmer weather trends are not arbitrary, but confirmation that climate change is upon us.
Just when MARS was the acceptable next frontier, NASA announces the Juno Mission, a successful five-year space odyssey that essentially began anew July 4, as the unmanned spacecraft entered Jupiter’s atmosphere to initiate planetary study.
Southern California residents were roused early from their sleep as a 5.2 temblor rocked the early morning hours shaking northern San Diego county for an estimated thirty seconds causing limited structural damage and frayed nerves.
A perfectly formed Nor'Easter is expected to pummel the East Coast with blizzard conditions, record breaking snowfalls, and whipping winds, subzero temperatures, whiteouts, and icy roads are expected as the weather gradually worsens throughout Friday into the weekend.
A freak Winter Storm that pummeled the United Kingdom with apocalyptic rains has driven temperatures up more than 50 degrees in the North Pole creating balmy, and dangerous, conditions that induced polar ice cap melting and instability for the natural habitat.
Contrary to popular belief, floods and droughts kill more Americans than hurricanes or earthquakes. Globally, however, earthquakes comprise some of the deadliest natural disasters in history.
Every season, a multitude of natural disasters hits the U.S. From mudslides to avalanches, these hazards cause millions of dollars in damage and affect families nationwide. Sadly, these disasters are often fatal.
Brace yourself, winter is coming. You’ll sense its imminent arrival with a chill that creeps into the air. A chill that forces us to don our grandma-knit scarves, mukluks and tacky holiday sweaters.
The Hubble Space Telescope, in operation since the 1990’s and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s, (NASA), eye into the deep places of the universe, has discovered the existence of dwarf galaxies dating back to just after the big bang.
Hurricane Patricia, the strongest recorded storm in history with sustained winds greater than 200mph, is on a projected path that will create a direct hit making landfall near the pacific coast state of Jalisco, Mexico today.
Hurricane Danny, the first named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane 2015 Season, quickly escalated to a Category 3 storm gaining strength over the warm waters of the Atlantic pushing forward threatening the Virgin Islands, Leeward and Puerto Rico.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency, (NASA), in an historic mission, released the first ever photos of Pluto’s surface culminating the nine year effort to bring to the world images and collect data from the furthest planet in the solar system.
Winter Storm Cato is headed up the Eastern Seaboard, from the mid-Atlantic to New England, causing major travel delays and disrupting Holiday plans, as the northeast braces for a winter wallop heading into the Thanksgiving weekend.
Following a deep freeze that sent much of the nation into woolens and winter wardrobe, a quick spring thaw with warmer temps has caught the same plunging jet stream and will send a brief respite as far as Deep South.
A Polar Vortex, fueled by the remnant of Super Typhoon Nuri, a bomb cyclone, is pushing deeply frigid air into the lower forty-eight as far south as Tennessee with mid-westerners experiencing some of the coldest pre-thanksgiving temperatures in recent history.
The European Space Agency, with the assistance from the space docking launching station Rosetta, has robotically landed, which was live-streamed, the unmanned Philae Spacecraft on a comet recording and the first ever such landing by any space agency.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the first real time HD video streaming of earth, seen from the International Space station, will be permanently offered through a special streaming link available to everyone.
Mars Rover, the mechanical robotic vehicle designed to drive across the red planet gathering evidence, has recently made two huge discoveries building a solid belief that life, in some form, could have existed on the planet.
The United States is entering its second polar vortex in as many weeks as record low temps are set to move in, beginning tonight and lasting five days, 2014 is shaping up to be the coldest winter in history.
An historic polar vortex is set to blast a record breaking stint of frigid arctic air across much of the nation sending temperatures plummeting to paralyzing negative double digits and forcing the chilly air as far deep as the Gulf coast.
Japanese government officials are admitting for the first time the radioactive leak in the crippled Fukushima plant is causing contaminated water to pour into the Pacific Ocean at an alarming rate.
Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon's surface, died Saturday, in Columbus, Ohio, after experiencing complications from cardiovascular surgery. He was 82.
The Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recently presented Capturing the Final Frontier: NASA Animation and the Movies, a tribute to Hollywood’s love affair with Space and the worlds beyond.
As the Seal pup slaughter is set to begin, The International Humane Society and the Humane Society United States (HSUS) have initiated an on-going effort to stop the barbaric massacre on the Canadian Ice Floes.
WALT DISNEY TELEVISION and Mickey and Minnie Mouse recently hosted the astronauts of NASA’s final Space Shuttle Mission Atlantis along with the Boys & Girls Club from East Los Angeles for a special tribute to the dreamers.
AVATAR Director James Cameron, Producer Jon Landau and actress Sigourney Weaver have teamed with Amazon Watch to assist the Brazilian based environmental watch dog agency in its fight to stop the construction on sixty dams that will divert the XINGU River.
Hubble 3-D, a Warner Bros/IMAX film, hosted its world premiere this week followed by an exclusive reception at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
