Tag: NASA
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded worldwide
(CNS): Following predictions over the last few months that 2023 would be the world’s hottest year ever recorded after two decades of escalating temperatures, scientists say that last year may have been the warmest in 125,000 years. While the official data for last month has not been calculated, the results were already locked in by […]
No easy fixes for giant sargassum ‘blob’
(CNS): Dubbed the ‘great blob’, the ever-increasing sargassum belt that circulates in the Atlantic has grown to more than 5,500 miles across and is currently moving through our region. Government officials are warning that the belt is likely to wash ashore in the Cayman Islands again this year. But there is no easy fix. Officials […]
Giant asteroid to pass by Earth but poses no danger
(CNS): A giant asteroid will pass by Earth on Tuesday, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed. The asteroid, known as 7482 (1994 PC1), measures more than a kilometre (3,280ft) across) and 1,052m (3,451ft) tall, which means it is larger than 99% of asteroids and about the size of the Golden Gate […]
Earth heading for hottest decade since records began
(CNS): The Met Office, the UK’s National Meteorological Service, is forecasting that global average surface temperatures over the next five years are likely to be 1°C or more above pre-industrial levels, as the world is now in the midst of what is likely to be the warmest decade (2014 to 2023) since records began in 1850. […]
Global temperature records blown away again
(CNS): The latest temperature figures released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have revealed yet another world record in high temperatures for the Earth. The global temperature for April was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average. This crushed the previous April record set in 2010 by 0.24 degrees Celsius and marks the seventh month […]
NOAA attempts to unlock mysteries of El Niño
(CNS): Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have embarked on a land, sea and air campaign in the tropical Pacific to study the current El Niño, one of the strongest on record, and gather data in an effort to improve weather forecasts thousands of miles away. El Niño has a significant effect on […]
