Artist Liam Gillick’s “A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station)” For Fogo Island Arts
A wondrous architectural art installation and functional part of the World Weather Network
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Using Lasers to Direct Lightning Strikes
For the first time ever, scientists have redirected the path of lightning bolts with lasers. During a demonstration atop Switzerland’s Säntis mountain, researchers fired rapid laser pulses at thunderclouds for more than …
Lightweight Dog Raincoat
$60.00
Stockholm-based Stutterheim is adored the world over for their effective rain gear and its connection to Swedish weather and Sweden’s natural surroundings. One raincoat from the brand, the Lightweight Dog Raincoat, might be …
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New Storm-Tracking Satellite Will Observe Space Weather Too
Headed to space today (with weather permitting), the GOES-T satellite and its arsenal of high-resolution cameras will track storms, wildfires and more in real time across North America. The National Atmospheric and …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
From gigantic "sea dragons" to unbaking the planet, news from the worlds of science, design and beyond
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First-Ever Footage of Lightning Being Triggered
Low Frequency Array (LOFAR)—a state-of-the-art network of thousands of radio telescopes primarily used for astronomy—tunes its antennas to thunderclouds when storms roll in and impede its normal work. This allows the tool …
Via bloomberg.com
Building an Army of Oysters Around NYC To Mitigate Floods + Erosion
Before commercial harvesting, oyster reefs used to compose more than 220,000 acres of New York’s coastline, acting as a natural flood-mitigation system in addition to increasing marine biodiversity. With these reefs’ destruction, …
Via smartcitiesdive.com
Cities Continue to Hire Chief Resilience Officers to Address Climate Change
Amidst the myriad extreme weather events globally, city and county governments in the US continue to hire Chief Resilience Officers in an effort to address the effects of climate change. Once grant-funded …
Via vice.com
Ocean Radiation Could Predict Tsunamis
In an effort to better predict tsunamis, researchers at the University of Athens are working on underwater radiation-detecting drones as part of a project called RAMONES (RadioActivity Monitoring in Ocean EcoSystems). Understanding …
Via nytimes.com
The Perilous Relationship Between Antarctic Conditions + Scientific Equipment
This January, 18 days into a research initiative across Antarctica’s Outer Recovery Ice Fields, the last of the team’s specialized equipment failed. This mission (held around the 200th anniversary of the discovery …