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- Farmers' Almanac Campfire MugStart each day of your outdoor adventure with a piping hot cup of coffee or tea in one of our Farmers' Almanac Campfire Mugs. Each mug is 14 ounces, made out of lightweight but sturdy steel, and can be used to sip your favorite drink, or eat baked beans by the fire.
- Best Day Tasks for November 25, 2020Bake, Cut Firewood, Mow to Increase Growth, Dig Holes, Kill...
- Current Moon Phase: Waxing GibbousThe Moon's current percentage of illumination is 82%.
- Gardening by the Moon for November 25, 2020Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little.
- Fishing Calendar for November 25, 2020Morning - POOR
- Moon's Astrological Place for November 25, 2020♈ Aries - Ram (Head & Face)
- Pre-order your copy of the 2019 Farmers' Almanac Today!The 2019 Farmers' Almanac is available for pre-order! (Ships August 13th)
Start each day of your outdoor adventure with a piping hot cup of coffee or tea in one of our Farmers' Almanac Campfire Mugs. Each mug is 14 ounces, made out of lightweight but sturdy steel, and can be used to sip your favorite drink, or eat baked beans by the fire.
Bake, Cut Firewood, Mow to Increase Growth, Dig Holes, Kill...
The Moon's current percentage of illumination is 82%.
Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little.
Morning - POOR
♈ Aries - Ram (Head & Face)
The 2019 Farmers' Almanac is available for pre-order! (Ships August 13th)
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- How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubbleCould the cryptocurrency's huge electricity consumption also sink it?
- Brunt Ice Shelf: Big iceberg calves near UK Antarctic baseThe berg covers 1,270 sq km - nearly 490 square miles - but its break-off was expected.
- Climate change: Carbon emission promises 'put Earth on red alert'Nations' current carbon-cutting plans will not keep global temperature rise below 1.5C, the UN says.
- Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace adsProtected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.
- National Trust to plant blossom trees in citiesThe National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees to create new green spaces.
- AI conquers challenge of 1980s platform gamesA computer program that can solve 1980s exploration games could help improve robot intelligence.
- How 30,000 elephant 'selfies' will help in conservationResearchers are developing new technology to help reduce human-elephant conflicts.
- Most pheasants sold for food 'contain lead shot'Scientists say a pledge by shooting groups to phase out lead shot has had no detectable effect.
- Mary Anning: Fossil hunter celebrated with Jurassic 50p coinsThe 19th Century fossil hunter's achievements were often overlooked during her own lifetime.
- Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' declineNumbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.
- Walker Swamp: The mission to restore an Australian wetlandWalker Swamp had been destroyed by 150 years of farming - now it is replenished and welcoming life.
- Climate Change: How much did it cost US economy in 2020?Last year saw a record numbers of costly extreme weather events.
- US rejoins Paris accord: Biden's first act sets tone for ambitious approachRe-joining the Paris climate pact is a symbolic and practical first step for the Biden White House.
- Bill Gates: Solving Covid easy compared with climateSolving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.
- Video shows Perseverance rover's dramatic Mars landingThe Perseverance robot is seen touching down on the Red Planet in a whirl of dust and grit.
- Yungblud 'honoured' to have David Bowie cover played on MarsNasa told the singer they would play his cover of David Bowie's Life On Mars as they landed
- Hayley Arceneaux: Cancer survivor joins first all-civilian space missionThe SpaceX mission will make Hayley Arceneaux the first person with a prosthesis to visit space.
- Key questions about Nasa's next Mars roverWe answer some common questions about the American Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
- Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past lifeIf there was life on Mars, how will the US space agency's next robot rover recognise it?
- Mars landings: How many landings on Mars?With two missions to land on Mars in 2021, Laura Foster looks back at all the previous attempts.
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak's parallels with Covid pandemicTwenty years on from the start of the foot-and-mouth crisis, the Covid parallels appear stark.
- Nasa's pioneering black womenThe mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme.
- Are streaming algorithms really damaging film?Director Martin Scorsese says streaming algorithms demean cinema and treat viewers as consumers.
- Smart materials: From tiny robots to colour-swapping clothesA report examines the potential of materials that can change shape, adapt and repair themselves.
- Stonehenge: Did the stone circle originally stand in Wales?Archaeologists now believe the stone circle stood 150 miles from its current location in Wiltshire.
- Computer says go: Taking orders from an AI bossAs artificial intelligence systems get more prevalent, some of us already have computers as managers.
Could the cryptocurrency's huge electricity consumption also sink it?
The berg covers 1,270 sq km - nearly 490 square miles - but its break-off was expected.
Nations' current carbon-cutting plans will not keep global temperature rise below 1.5C, the UN says.
Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.
The National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees to create new green spaces.
A computer program that can solve 1980s exploration games could help improve robot intelligence.
Researchers are developing new technology to help reduce human-elephant conflicts.
Scientists say a pledge by shooting groups to phase out lead shot has had no detectable effect.
The 19th Century fossil hunter's achievements were often overlooked during her own lifetime.
Numbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.
Walker Swamp had been destroyed by 150 years of farming - now it is replenished and welcoming life.
Last year saw a record numbers of costly extreme weather events.
Re-joining the Paris climate pact is a symbolic and practical first step for the Biden White House.
Solving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.
The Perseverance robot is seen touching down on the Red Planet in a whirl of dust and grit.
Nasa told the singer they would play his cover of David Bowie's Life On Mars as they landed
The SpaceX mission will make Hayley Arceneaux the first person with a prosthesis to visit space.
We answer some common questions about the American Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
If there was life on Mars, how will the US space agency's next robot rover recognise it?
With two missions to land on Mars in 2021, Laura Foster looks back at all the previous attempts.
Twenty years on from the start of the foot-and-mouth crisis, the Covid parallels appear stark.
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme.
Director Martin Scorsese says streaming algorithms demean cinema and treat viewers as consumers.
A report examines the potential of materials that can change shape, adapt and repair themselves.
Archaeologists now believe the stone circle stood 150 miles from its current location in Wiltshire.
As artificial intelligence systems get more prevalent, some of us already have computers as managers.
National Geographic©
- Chemical Exposure Linked to Billions in Health Care CostsChemicals that mimic estrogen and other hormones are costing the EU $175 billion per year in health care, according to new research.
- As Smog Thins in L.A., Dramatic Evidence of Kids' Healthier LungsNew study shows Los Angeles-area kids have fewer breathing problems now than they did in the 1990s.
- Lack of Snow Leaves California's 'Water Tower' Running LowRising temperatures and declining snowpack in the mountains mean that the drought across the western U.S. is about to get even worse.
- Arctic Ship Breaks Free of Ice for Historic Expedition A Norwegian research vessel will spend six months on the sea ice to study the changing Arctic.
- How Geothermal Could Cleanly Power the Planet: Indonesia's TaleThe Earth's heat could power homes and businesses worldwide, but it's barely been tapped. Indonesia is trying to change that.
- Dramatic New Video Shows Volcano Forming an IslandA fast growing island off Japan is seen in new video from the Japanese Coast Guard.
- Corn for Home Heat: A Green Idea That Never Quite Popped Some enterprising Americans burn kernels to keep warm in winter, but there's a reason the green heating concept hasn't taken off.
- What You Don't Know About History's Most Famous ScientistsIn the 11th and 12th centuries, Muslim scientists were way ahead of contemporaries in Christian Europe.
- New Theory Behind Dozens of Craters Found in SiberiaScientists say melting pingos, and not methane hydrates, are likely to blame for the dramatic craters.
- Miami's Choice: Bigger Ships or Coral Reefs?Dredging in Biscayne Bay inflicts heavy damage on North America's only coral reef tract.
- Quirky Winds Fuel Brazil's Devastating Drought, Amazon's Flooding With severe water shortages in Brazil's cities and destructive floods in the Amazon, the boom-and-bust phenomenon may be South America's new normal.
- 'Shark Lady' Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has DiedEugenie Clark, a marine biologist and ichthyologist, who died on Wednesday, helped the public understand and appreciate the much maligned shark.
- Canadian First Nations Seek to Protect Forest HomelandBy winning protection for their boreal forest, indigenous Canadians help slow global warming.
- Panama Canal: Superhighway for Invasive Species?The Panama Canal is being widened. That means bigger ships and more cargo for Gulf and East Coast ports-and more alien species too.
- 'This Is Really Extreme Science': Adrift in the Arctic Ice With a Shipload of NorwegiansOur correspondent reports from a Norwegian research ship that's drifting inside the Arctic ice cap, gathering data needed to predict its future.
- Two Reasons Why Obama's Keystone Veto Won't Decide PipelineThe never-ending saga of the Keystone XL pipeline gets new twists with potential problems in Nebraska and South Dakota.
- New U.S. Dietary Recommendations First to Consider Environmental Impact"Linking health, dietary guidance, and the environment will promote human health," new guidelines say.
- Ancient Fellowship of Fishermen, Dolphins at Risk in MyanmarFishing gangs on the Irrawaddy River use electricity to illegally increase their catch.
- Nearly 200 Whales Stranded on New Zealand BeachNearly 200 pilot whales are stranded on a New Zealand beach, prompting a massive rescue effort.
- 100 Years Later, Antarctic Explorers' Huts Look Frozen in TimeWhiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers now look as they did during the first treks to the continent, thanks to a decade-long restoration effort.
- New Study Shows Plastic in Oceans Is on the RiseThe amount of trash flowing into the world's oceans is worse than thought—eight million tons a year, says new study.
- Mysterious Sea Lion Die-Off Strikes Again on California CoastTiny sea lion pups are washing up on beaches in unusually high numbers—for the third winter in a row.
- Fighting Over Herring—the Little Fish That Feeds MultitudesPacific herring stocks are shadows of their former abundance. But the Canadian government wants to reopen fishing off British Columbia.
- To Save Coral Reefs, First Save the MangrovesCoral reefs are in danger of bleaching in open water, but in the sheltering roots of mangroves, some have found a home.
- National Academy: There’s a Good and a Bad Way to “Geoengineer” the PlanetWe should be figuring out how to pull CO₂ back out of the atmosphere, says a National Research Council report. But we should be wary of launching a planet-cooling chemical sunshade.
Chemicals that mimic estrogen and other hormones are costing the EU $175 billion per year in health care, according to new research.
New study shows Los Angeles-area kids have fewer breathing problems now than they did in the 1990s.
Rising temperatures and declining snowpack in the mountains mean that the drought across the western U.S. is about to get even worse.
A Norwegian research vessel will spend six months on the sea ice to study the changing Arctic.
The Earth's heat could power homes and businesses worldwide, but it's barely been tapped. Indonesia is trying to change that.
A fast growing island off Japan is seen in new video from the Japanese Coast Guard.
Some enterprising Americans burn kernels to keep warm in winter, but there's a reason the green heating concept hasn't taken off.
In the 11th and 12th centuries, Muslim scientists were way ahead of contemporaries in Christian Europe.
Scientists say melting pingos, and not methane hydrates, are likely to blame for the dramatic craters.
Dredging in Biscayne Bay inflicts heavy damage on North America's only coral reef tract.
With severe water shortages in Brazil's cities and destructive floods in the Amazon, the boom-and-bust phenomenon may be South America's new normal.
Eugenie Clark, a marine biologist and ichthyologist, who died on Wednesday, helped the public understand and appreciate the much maligned shark.
By winning protection for their boreal forest, indigenous Canadians help slow global warming.
The Panama Canal is being widened. That means bigger ships and more cargo for Gulf and East Coast ports-and more alien species too.
Our correspondent reports from a Norwegian research ship that's drifting inside the Arctic ice cap, gathering data needed to predict its future.
The never-ending saga of the Keystone XL pipeline gets new twists with potential problems in Nebraska and South Dakota.
"Linking health, dietary guidance, and the environment will promote human health," new guidelines say.
Fishing gangs on the Irrawaddy River use electricity to illegally increase their catch.
Nearly 200 pilot whales are stranded on a New Zealand beach, prompting a massive rescue effort.
Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers now look as they did during the first treks to the continent, thanks to a decade-long restoration effort.
The amount of trash flowing into the world's oceans is worse than thought—eight million tons a year, says new study.
Tiny sea lion pups are washing up on beaches in unusually high numbers—for the third winter in a row.
Pacific herring stocks are shadows of their former abundance. But the Canadian government wants to reopen fishing off British Columbia.
Coral reefs are in danger of bleaching in open water, but in the sheltering roots of mangroves, some have found a home.
We should be figuring out how to pull CO₂ back out of the atmosphere, says a National Research Council report. But we should be wary of launching a planet-cooling chemical sunshade.
The American Meteorological Society©
- Southeasterners Perceive Tornado Risk Dangerously Different Than They Should, Especially at NightWhile a major winter storm a week ago was plastering the United States from Texas and New Mexico to New England with heavy snow and ice, volatile conditions in the Southeast (SE) spawned damaging and deadly tornadoes. One of these overnight Monday a week ago, tragically took the lives of 3 people and injured 10 […]
- The 101st AMS Annual Meeting: Find Your (Virtual) Pathways of Major ThemesWe’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate community in the past, this coming week (starting Sunday, January 10th), promises many opportunities to […]
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 5: Community EngagementAs we mentioned in the first post in this series of potential “Virtual” Pathways through the rich AMS Annual Meeting program of parallel conferences, this year’s overarching theme is especially powerful: “Strengthening engagement with communities through our science and services.” This is a statement of needs, accomplishments, and future priorities all in one. After the […]
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 4: Social JusticeAfter a year of substantial social injustice-fueled upheavals, the 101st AMS Annual Meeting builds on social justice themes all week and you could make social justice the theme of you own virtual programming, picking and choosing your way through the sessions if you’re so inclined, right from the centerpiece Presidential Forum on Sunday, “Building a […]
- Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 3: Pandemic TopicsOften our Annual Meeting week feels like a chance to get away from some of the day-to-day issues of work to focus on exchanging scientific ideas with colleagues. This year, the AMS Annual Meeting is a virtual gathering, however, so there’s little chance any of us will escape entirely the everyday concerns of COVID-19 this […]
- Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Path- way. Part 2: Weather Extremes and Climate ChangeAs we noted in the previous blog post, there are multiple ways to navigate an AMS Annual Meeting, even though we’re usually channeled into separate rooms devoted to parallel conferences, each focused on an area of specialization. But this year’s all-virtual conference, during the coming week, offers unusual prospects for hopping from conference to conference, […]
- The 101st AMS Annual Meeting: Find Your (Virtual) Pathway of Major ThemesWe’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate community in the past, this coming week (starting Sunday, January 10th), promises many opportunities to […]
- Not Just in Their Heads: New Research Confirms Connection Between Weather and Chronic PainStormy weather increases pain. That fact is actually good news for people suffering from chronic pain whose complaints are often dismissed by family, their friends, and even their doctors. Speaking, and likely complaining, about the effect of weather on their pain for millennia, chronic pain sufferers finally have a large-scale scientific study to back up […]
- An Anticipated Increase in Earth’s Strongest StormsA little more than two weeks ago, Supertyphoon Goni blasted ashore in the Philippines with top sustained winds of 195 mph, becoming the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record. It topped STY Haiyan’s 190 mph land strike just seven years ago. With Hurricane Iota in the Caribbean explosively intensifying 100 mph in under 24 hours […]
- We May Be Able to Further Improve Hurricane Track Forecasts After AllZeta blossomed into the 11th hurricane of this hyperactive season Monday and its forecast track takes it ashore on the Gulf Coast by midweek. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Monday said computer models had become more tightly clustered with the forecast in the Gulf, “resulting in an increase in track-forecast confidence,” and Hurricane Zeta […]
While a major winter storm a week ago was plastering the United States from Texas and New Mexico to New England with heavy snow and ice, volatile conditions in the Southeast (SE) spawned damaging and deadly tornadoes. One of these overnight Monday a week ago, tragically took the lives of 3 people and injured 10 […]
We’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate community in the past, this coming week (starting Sunday, January 10th), promises many opportunities to […]
As we mentioned in the first post in this series of potential “Virtual” Pathways through the rich AMS Annual Meeting program of parallel conferences, this year’s overarching theme is especially powerful: “Strengthening engagement with communities through our science and services.” This is a statement of needs, accomplishments, and future priorities all in one. After the […]
After a year of substantial social injustice-fueled upheavals, the 101st AMS Annual Meeting builds on social justice themes all week and you could make social justice the theme of you own virtual programming, picking and choosing your way through the sessions if you’re so inclined, right from the centerpiece Presidential Forum on Sunday, “Building a […]
Often our Annual Meeting week feels like a chance to get away from some of the day-to-day issues of work to focus on exchanging scientific ideas with colleagues. This year, the AMS Annual Meeting is a virtual gathering, however, so there’s little chance any of us will escape entirely the everyday concerns of COVID-19 this […]
As we noted in the previous blog post, there are multiple ways to navigate an AMS Annual Meeting, even though we’re usually channeled into separate rooms devoted to parallel conferences, each focused on an area of specialization. But this year’s all-virtual conference, during the coming week, offers unusual prospects for hopping from conference to conference, […]
We’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate community in the past, this coming week (starting Sunday, January 10th), promises many opportunities to […]
Stormy weather increases pain. That fact is actually good news for people suffering from chronic pain whose complaints are often dismissed by family, their friends, and even their doctors. Speaking, and likely complaining, about the effect of weather on their pain for millennia, chronic pain sufferers finally have a large-scale scientific study to back up […]
A little more than two weeks ago, Supertyphoon Goni blasted ashore in the Philippines with top sustained winds of 195 mph, becoming the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record. It topped STY Haiyan’s 190 mph land strike just seven years ago. With Hurricane Iota in the Caribbean explosively intensifying 100 mph in under 24 hours […]
Zeta blossomed into the 11th hurricane of this hyperactive season Monday and its forecast track takes it ashore on the Gulf Coast by midweek. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Monday said computer models had become more tightly clustered with the forecast in the Gulf, “resulting in an increase in track-forecast confidence,” and Hurricane Zeta […]
