Graph of the Day: Distribution of Radioactive Contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, April 2011

By Marques G. Harper   14 September 2012 JONESTOWN – Struggling with the economic effects of a two-year drought, Jonestown has shed its police chief and head librarian. With revenue down — fees from boat launches and building permits have dropped...

This is a map of the magnitude of the horizontal velocity of the seawater at the indicated depth. Units are meters per second. RTOFS (Atlantic) is a basin-scale ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). RTOFS...

By Daniel Cressey13 April 2016 (Nature) – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is undergoing the most severe bleaching event in its history, as corals along the reef expel the symbiotic algae that provide them both with their rich colours and food....