Stories tagged "spring"

April 11, 2019

One Frigid Thing: April Blizzard Blasts The Plains

The temperature on Tuesday in Denver was 78 degrees, but yesterday Denver was dealing with a major snowstorm that caused the cancellation of a baseball game between the Rockies and the Atlanta Braves.  In South Dakota, a portion of I-90 had to be shut down on...

March 27, 2019

One Spring Thing: Peduncle Elongation In DC!

We had so many chuckles yesterday — with Senator Lee and his GND posters, not to mention all the hilarious responses — but this tweet humorously reminded us to look up, and stop and see the cherry trees. Nothing means spring in DC like these delicate pink...

March 20, 2019

One cool thing: vernal equinox from space

Yesterday was the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and also the vernal equinox. This image from the Meteosat-9 satellite shows Earth from space on the equinox. As the New York Times explained, the spring equinox is a point in Earth’s orbit where the sun...

March 21, 2018

Our Daily Planet: Reducing Air Pollution Would Save 150 Million Lives This Century, Florida’s Wetlands, Interior Auctions Oil and Gas Leases In Southern Utah, Is it really Spring?, Local Papers Crucial to Public Health, Last Male Northern White Rhino Dies

Our Daily Planet: Cutting Air Pollution Saves 150 million lives, But Last Male White Rhino is Gone, and much more… Campaign URL Copy Facebook 0 likes Twitter 0 tweets Google +1 Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate English العربية Afrikaans беларуская мова...