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POPSChance of Snow Friday is Up in the Air Please be kind to your local forecasters. They'd very much like to definitively say it will snow Friday. Accuweather.com's Joe Bastardi said most Houstonians should expect to at least see snowflakes in the air. But weather, he admitted, is weather. “What I get concerned about is that if the snow stops 10 miles northwest of Houston,” he said. “Then everyone thinks we're idiots.” By ERIC BERGER
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POPSPalm Oil Critics: Wither Art Thou When the Snow Fell in Spring? It was a cool spring morning as I drove along the I 15 Freeway in early March 2009 heading towards San Bernardino near Los Angeles. Feeling that the morning cool was too good to miss, I pressed the button switch on my Mustang to bring the auto-canvas roof of the car down to enjoy the cool morning breeze. Approaching Barstow, I felt a sudden deluge of snowflakes, wet and cold on my face. “This can’t be happening,” I thought to myself as it was already early spring.
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POPSThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France
I know this is an old story, but like the plastic and trash we keep throwing away, it just won’t go away. Measurements show there is six times more plastic than plankton in this area. Plastic does not biodegrade; no microbe has yet evolved that can feed on it. Prolonged exposure to sunlight causes polymer chains to break down into smaller and smaller pieces, a process accelerated by physical friction, such as being blown across a beach or rolled by waves. Worldwide, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, plastic is killing a million seabirds a year, and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles. Bottle caps, pocket combs, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, cottonbud shafts, toothbrushes, toys, syringes and plastic shopping bags are routinely found in the stomachs of dead seabirds and turtles. Every single molecule of plastic that has ever been manufactured is still somewhere in the environment, and some 100 million tons of it are floating in the oceans.
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POPSThe Science of Snowflakes 15 photographs from Time Photos Click Here Caltech physics professor Kenneth G. Libbrecht has turned his passion for the study of ice crystals into an art form. In his books and website, Snowcrystals.com, he breaks down some of the basics behind these miniature miracles of nature
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