July 18 - Earth's Next Supercontinent

July 18 Earth's Next Supercontinent by:

If the Atlantic Ocean keeps getting wider, and the Pacific Ocean keeps closing, the Americas will eventually collide with northward-drifting Antarctica, and then with the already-collided Africa-Eurasia. The supercontinent that would then form has been named Novopangea by today's scientists. Read more.

What will Earth’s next supercontinent look like? Geologists believe that, every few hundred million years, Earth's continents combine to create massive supercontinents. The most famous past supercontinent is the most recent one, Pangea. This article gives 4 possible scenarios for future supercontinents.  Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic Ice-age hyenas might have hunted caribou and horses, or scavenged carcasses of mammoths, on a cold treeless tundra. Read more. Record wettest 12 months for US, again Wet conditions from July 2018 through June 2019 resulted in a new 12-month precipitation record in the U.S. Read more. What we're reading From AccuWeather … DC to feel almost as hot as Death Valley on Saturday The northeastern United States will sizzle this week as summer heat builds to near-record levels in some places. Many metropolitan areas will experience the hottest air temperatures of the summer so far. In the nation's capital, temperatures on Saturday are forecast to reach 110 F, just 2 degrees shy of the forecast for Death Valley, California, on the same day. Read more.

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Last night's moon, Saturn, Jupiter View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Rising moon, Saturn, Jupiter on July 17 from our friend Dr Ski in Valencia, Philippines. Thank you, Dr Ski! Visit EarthSky's guide to the bright planets for July.

Fishing isn't always what you catch View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Our friend Karl Diefenderfer caught this image at Lake Nockamixon State Park near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, on July 16. Thank you, Karl!  Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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