By: Josh Davis/IFL Science One of the defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch we have recently ushered in, is the massive amount of plastics that we manufacture and discard. One of the reasons we use so much of it is because it’s difficult to degrade, but this also means that the billions of tons of plastic…
Satellite Images Show Before And After Hurricane Irma Hit The Caribbean
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science In the days after Hurricane Irma swept across the Caribbean and was headed over mainland US, the Landsat 8 satellite was snapping away to document the damage. NASA has released a series of satellite imagery showing the Caribbean before and after the storm on August 25 and September 10, 2017. They are some of the least…
NASA Pointed Out A Threat That Could Wipe Out Humans (No, It’s Not an Asteroid)
By: Anna LeMind/The Mind Unleashed If you think about a global catastrophic event, what comes to your mind first of all? I bet you imagine a nuclear war and a deserted landscape left as a result of it. Well, in the troubled times we live in, something like this is a possible scenario. But there is another…
Animal Sanctuary Flooded By Hurricane Rushes To Save Everyone
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo “When you’re faced with circumstances like that you’re stronger than you think.” Renee King-Sonnen is the kind of person who has made a habit of overcoming the impossible. She married a cattle rancher — and now the ranch is a sanctuary. All the cows that were being raised for slaughter were saved, transformed…
The Northern Lights Will Be Amazing In The Next Few Days
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFLScience Grab a warm coat and get ready to travel away from artificial lights. Thanks to the biggest solar flare we have observed in a decade, people at the northernmost and southernmost latitudes might experience an extraordinary spectacle. According to NOAA’s aurora forecast service, the Northern Lights might be visible to more southern latitudes than they usually are,…
Rising Sea Levels Have Caused Eight Islands In The Pacific To Completely Disappear
By: James Felton/IFL Science Last year it became apparent that five islands had disappeared into the Pacific ocean. Part of the Soloman Islands, the low-lying reef islands were completely submerged by rising sea levels, all since the mid-20th century. The islands weren’t inhabited, but other nearby ones were. On six of these, large areas of land were completely…
Artist Installs Gigantic Face Of Child On Mexican Side Of US Border Wall
By: Amanda Froelich/The Mind Unleashed French street artist JR is but one of many who opposes the US-Mexico border wall and made his distaste for the division evident with a recent art installation. Along the latest piece of the border wall, JR and his team erected an enormous wood support for one of his signature posters, which features…
Jose Is Now A Category 1 Hurricane
By: Rosie McCall/IFL Science With Texas reeling from Harvey, Irma devastating several Caribbean islands, and now Jose being upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane, it’s been a rough season for North America. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon when Jose’s maximum winds hit 125 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). As of 5 am ET on Wednesday, maximum…
Ohio Cop Shoots Journalist For Taking Photos Of A Thunderstorm
By: ANTIMEDIA — A police officer in Clark County, Ohio, opened fire on a journalist Monday night after he mistook the reporter’s camera equipment for a weapon. The incident occurred around 10 pm after Andy Grimm, a photographer for the New Carlisle News who was out photographing a thunderstorm — due to pass the small town about…