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States in the southern High Plains will be "quite vulnerable to high wildfire risk, especially during high wind events," said Jon Gottschalck of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Sea surface temperatures are rising with clear indications we're to blame

New footage has been released showing widespread coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, spanning 1100km from Lizard Island to the Keppel Islands.

April Nymex natural gas (NGJ24 ) on Friday closed -0.025 (-1.34%). Nat-gas prices on Friday settled moderately lower. The outlook for above-average U.S. winter temperatures to persist is weighing on nat-gas prices. On Friday, NOAA said warm spring weather for the central and eastern U.S. regions will last into the...

The sun has blasted out its most powerful flare of the current solar cycle. The X6.3 solar flare peaked in the afternoon on Thursday (Feb. 22) and is the most powerful flare since 2017.

Over 70,000 users faced cellular outages in the USA this morning. Some speculate that two powerful X-class solar flares caused this.

Two X-class solar flares arrived at Earth last night and early this morning. The radiation bursts coincided with massive cellphone service outages across the U.S., but experts urge that the events may not be related.

Tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers throughout the United States after a pair of powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite fell to Earth on Wednesday (Feb. 21), bringing an end to its nearly 30-year life in space.