The moon is wobbling. This is nothing new. First observed in 1728, the wobble is a cyclical shifting of the moon’s orbit around the earth that takes 18.6 years to complete.
In half of this lunar cycle, Earth’s regular daily tides are diminished, with high tides lower than usual and low tides higher than usual. In the cycle’s other half, the situation is reversed, with high tides higher and low tides lower.
The bad news is that we are about to enter the second half of the cycle, which, coupled with rising sea levels is likely to result in increased coastal flooding. A new study by NASA scientists suggests that U.S. coastlines will face increased flooding during high tides in the mid-2030s thanks to the wobble magnifying rising sea levels caused by climate change.
In 2013, a male gray whale was spotted in Walvis Bay off Namibia, which was odd, as no gray whale had ever been seen in the Southern Hemisphere. Where did he come from?
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