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A small group of northern U.S. states could see the northern lights Saturday night, providing the best shot at seeing the natural phenomenon as auroral activity is expected to decrease Sunday.
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A group of over 400 support staff in the Northern Lights Public School Division have voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 2559.
Life changed for Spaniards at noon on Monday. With the sun at its peak, the country’s largely solar-powered electrical grid shut down. Mere days before, Spain’s government had announced that ...
(via PBS Terra) The awe-inspiring visuals of the Aurora Borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for ...
Videos from the Spanish capital showed passengers walking to safety through darkened subway tunnels illuminated by emergency lights. Traffic signals were rendered out of order, forcing the Spanish ...
Hospitals switched to emergency generators. Offices emptied into the streets and traffic became gridlocked as traffic lights failed and drivers scrambled to get home. Shortly after her first ...
The authorities are still trying to determine the cause of a widespread blackout that left tens of millions of people without power for 18 hours. By Sara Ruberg and Michael Levenson After a nearly ...
But it has cemented itself as one of the best places in the world to consistently see the northern lights. Within a three-day visit, there is an 88 percent chance of experiencing the aurora ...
We’ve had some amazing northern lights displays in the last year here in Michigan and across the U.S. Does the shrinking number of sunspots mean our northern lights events are over for another ...
Glaring fluorescent lights in the office are on the way out. The technologies coming in promise to do much more than make everyone look better. Improved, and potentially more healthful ...
After a few months of relative quiet, last week saw geomagnetic activity that made the northern lights visible farther south than usual. That comes after a summer filled with chances to see the ...