The Nation's Weather

By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press Weather Underground, For The Associated Press – Sun Jan 17, 5:03 am ET

Planet of Promise: Small, Rocky World Could Harbor Life

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet far, far away that might be similar to Earth. This distant world, which pirouettes around a dim bulb of a star with the unglamorous name Gliese 581, may possibly sport a landscape that would be vaguely familiar to us - a panorama of liquid oceans and drifting continents. If so, there's the chance that it's a home to life - perhaps even advanced life.

Eye Of The Hurricane Reveals A New Power Source

In the eye of a furious hurricane, the weather is often quite calm and sunny. But new NASA research is providing clues about how the seemingly subtle movement of air within and around this region provides energy to keep this central "powerhouse" functioning.

Price of climate action 'negligible'

"NEGLIGIBLE". That's what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the cost of limiting long-term global warming would be. "We won't notice it," says Simon Retallack, head of climate change at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK-based think tank.

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