It prompted the first Earth Day, led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and helped spawn bedrock laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act. The ...
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The Earth was ready for its close-up this year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-16 satellites, captured several ...
In the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 ... the rupture travelled across the Earth at a speed of 6,260mph, starting off the coast of Indonesia, and travelling up the fault line between ...
Earth's orbit is so crowded with junk now that roughly 1,000 warnings about possible impending collisions go out to satellite operators each day, Berger said. For example, Araz Feyzi, a co-founder ...
This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer ... part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Earth-bound M8.9 solar flare, which the sun spewed yesterday ...
The Earth’s surface is a dynamic mosaic of geological ... global studies and accurate plate reconstructions . Present-Day Plate Boundaries: This model improves upon existing models ...