This May, Columbia was much warmer than normal and drier than normal. The average temperature of 74.7°F was 2.5° above normal, and the 2.92 inches of rain was 84% of the normal amount. Mays in Columbia are getting hotter, leading…

The first tropical storm of the season has formed in the Atlantic.  It's expected to continue to intensify as it heads toward Florida. The track puts the storm well off the South Carolina coast on Sunday.  On this track, the…

We have the first hurricane of the 2022 season - and it's in the Pacific.  Agatha made landfall along the Mexican coast, south of Acapulco today.  It will now move quickly inland over some pretty tall terrain.  Mountains tend to…

EarthSky.com says "At press conferences around the world on May 12, 2022, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) revealed the first-ever direct image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky…

Now that is astounding! Dr. Marshall Shepherd (@DrShepherd2013) wrote the following in Forbes: "This week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution associated with anthropogenic (human) activities “trapped” 49% more heat in the atmosphere…

It turns out that growing food on the moon is pretty hard.  A team of scientists has done a lot of research on this and concluded that this is a significant stumbling barrier for humans trying to live on the…

Check out the tweet from Jan Rosenow @janrosenow "The height of wind turbines has increased close to 10-fold over the last 35 years. This has driven capacity upward by a factor of 250x for largest prototype." See: German onshore wind power…

The numbers are in and April was the 5th warmest globally on record.  Here's the tweet from NOAA. @NOAA (1 of 5) Just in: April 2022 tied as the fifth-warmest April on record for the globe, with record high #April…

Despite the fact that solar panels installed on our roofs will dramatically cut back on pollution, create many good-paying jobs, firm up our defenses against power outages, produce power when it is needed most, and lower our utility bills, the…

This Sunday night, a lunar eclipse will be visible across most of North America - including us here in the Midlands.  A lunar eclipse happens when the earth casts its shadow on the moon. As long as the skies stay…

Here's a game-changer when it comes to getting fresh drinking water from the Ocean. "Researchers have invented a desalination device that can turn seawater into drinking water at the push of a button. The technology uses a technique that essentially…

Temperatures across the planet are warming.  And that's consistent with what's happening here in Columbia.  The average temperature for the month of April in Columbia has increased by roughly 2.5 degrees since 1970.  This increase is caused by us humans…

Check out this tweet by Kevin Stevens @kevindstevens: "Cool graph of renewable energy by state. Contrary to popular belief, not a political issue, red and blue states alike moving into renewable power - we should celebrate this!"

One significant source of green (non-polluting) electricity is wind.  The primary cost is construction and the all the fuel after that is free and clean - wind.  General Electric is trying to trim the cost of transporting some components of…

One of the things that scientists have aggressively been exploring is life on other planets.  Well it appears that we might be closer to actually finding life - right here in our solar system, on one of the moons of…

Could humans survive the loneliness of living in space for a long time?  Two men volunteered to be the subjects of this study by living 61 days alone in a very confined space.  Here an excerpt from an article in…