2019-2020 Winter Outlook verification: It was “drier-than-normal”

Well, it sure felt like a wet and mild winter, but feelings can be vastly different from fact. And they usually are. Our brain tends to get int eh way of remembering objective observations. That…

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Biogeographer Andy Reese discusses his research of an underwater forest in the Gulf of Mexico

In South Mississippi, counting pollen is usually done by sneezes. Or square feet. Not individually under a microscope. But, most of the pollen being counted by south Mississippians isn’t 60,000 years old. Trapped under the…

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Ask NASA: Melting arctic ice could lead to increase in atmospheric methane

Your browser does not support the video tag. For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic’s permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth’s climate continues to warm, that…

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Ask NASA: How arctic fires are impacting you (Spoiler Alert: they are)

Your browser does not support the video tag. Wildfires in the Arctic often burn far away from population centers, but their impacts are felt around the globe. From field and laboratory work to airborne campaigns…

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Ask NASA: Modeling the retreating Greenland Ice Sheet

Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge to develop a more accurate model of how the Greenland Ice Sheet…

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Mississippi sets state record for tornadoes

Last year was another active year for sever weather in Mississippi with a record-setting 115 tornadoes across the state. Multiple rounds of severe weather last spring and again during hte late fall and early winter…

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