Sun reaches maximum phase in 11-year solar cycle

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Archaeologists discover Armenia’s oldest church

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How to plan the ultimate trip to Morocco

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Few countries can claim to be as multifaceted as Morocco. Staunchly Islamic and overtly spiritual, this land of minarets crowning Africa is also a heartland for Amazigh (Berber) mountain people and has been fought over for millennia. The vast, colonnaded ruinsContinue Reading

Climate change: Care for humans, other species and the natural environment is the key to a just transition

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Communities across the world are facing two worsening crises: a climate crisis and a care crisis. The evidence and urgency on the climate crisis has been expertly illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The root cause of this crisis is the increase inContinue Reading

They survived nuclear weapons. Now they’ve won a Nobel peace Prize for trying to end them.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Oct. 11 to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against theContinue Reading

‘Severe’ geomagnetic storm to slam Earth Thursday, with auroras possible as far south as California and Alabama

A solar flare and related coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun on Oct. 8 could result in a “severe” geomagnetic storm on Thursday, NOAA predicts. (Image credit: NOAA) An enormous mass of charged solar particles will slam into our planet Thursday (Oct. 10), likely triggering a “severe” G4-classContinue Reading