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This <a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/ping/display/">map</a> shows data reported by users of the mPING app during Friday's blizzard in the Northeast.

This App Uses The Power Of You To Report The Weather

A new smartphone app allows users to document falling precipitation in their location. The mPING app aims to help weather officials program radar to determine exactly what's falling near you. For example, is it hail or mixed rain?

Miami's rising temperatures are part of planet-wide trend in extreme weather driven by climate change.

Steamy Miami Ties With 2015 And 2017 For Hottest Year On Record

Miami can claim yet another climate title: hottest year on record in a three-way tie with 2015 and 2017. Steamy high temps for the year averaged 79.1...

Japan once labeled its whaling vessels with prominent "Research" tags. The country will resume commercial whaling hunts in 2019. Here, the whaling ships Yushin Maru (right) and Yushin Maru No. 2 are seen before leaving for the Antarctic Ocean for a whale hunt in 2015. In the future, Japanese whaling ships will not operate in the Antarctic.

Japan Embraces Commercial Whaling, Pulls Out Of Global Alliance That Banned It

Japan is leaving the International Whaling Commission, which put a moratorium on commercial whaling in the 1980s. The country will allow commercial hunts for the first time in 30 years next July.

Susie Goodall on her boat DHL Starlight on July 1 at the start of the solo around-the-world Golden Globe Race.

Cargo Ship Saves 29-Year-Old Sailor In South Pacific After Her Boat Flips

On Wednesday, Susie Goodall was 2,000 miles west of South America when her boat capsized in heavy wind, breaking its mast and knocking her unconscious.

USF Doctoral Student To Travel To Antarctica

With sea level rises, global warming and more, the Earth has been affected a lot by climate change in the last few decades. For example, NASA reports...

<em>SpongeBob SquarePants</em> creator Stephen Hillenburg, shown here at the 2015 world premiere of "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water," has died at 57.

Stephen Hillenburg, Creator Of 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' Has Died At 57

The underwater world of Bikini Bottom, where the action takes place, reflects Hillenburg's deep interest in marine life. The show has been highly successful over nearly 20 years.

Tropical Storm Gordon Forms over South Florida

Tropical Storm Gordon formed Monday morning near Key Largo, Florida and is expected to bring heavy rain, gusty winds and possible tornadoes to portions...

British artist Jason deCaires Taylor's <em>Coralarium</em> sits in waters off the Maldives.

Maldives Police Use Pickaxes To Destroy Artwork Deemed Un-Islamic

The 20-foot-tall stainless steel cube was decorated with life-size human statues and semi-submerged in a coral lagoon. The artwork was criticized because it depicted human figures.

Wisdom, the 68-year-old albatross, has still got it going on. Here she is incubating her egg this week at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

Wisdom The Albatross, World's Oldest Wild Bird, Lays Another Egg

Wisdom is known to be at least 68 years old and nests each year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She survived a tsunami and is believed to have laid nearly 40 eggs over her life.

An aerial view of Hawaii's East Island after it was struck by Hurricane Walaka last month. The island, home to endangered monk seals and Hawaiian green sea turtles, nearly disappeared after the storm.

Remote Hawaiian Island Nearly Vanished After Hurricane Walaka

Only two minuscule slivers of East Island have resurfaced since the storm struck the region and wiped out a critical habitat for endangered monk seals and green sea turtles.

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