Nation Oct 02 Why hurricanes like Helene are deadly when they strike and kill years later Researchers say hurricanes contribute to more American deaths than car accidents or all the nation's wars.
Science Sep 04 The world is producing 57 million tons of plastic pollution per year, new study finds Researchers say the world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year — enough to fill New York City’s Central Park as high as the Empire State Building — and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest…
Nation Jul 23 Inland counties top disaster list as extreme weather becomes more frequent Despite the common belief that America's hurricane or earthquake prone coasts pose the greatest risk for climate-related disasters, the highest concentration of federally declared disasters is actually found in states like Kentucky or Vermont.
World Jun 27 Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned nearly 30,000 square miles of forest, spewed heat-trapping gas into the air Canadian wildfires pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air last year than India did by burning fossil fuels.
Science Apr 08 Carbon dioxide, methane levels in the atmosphere hit record highs last year Both greenhouse gases jumped 5.5% over the past decade of souped-up climate change. The third biggest human-caused greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, also spiked to a record high.
Science Mar 27 Timekeepers may subtract a second from clocks as soon as 2029 as planet spins slightly faster Ice melting at both of Earth’s poles has been counteracting the planet's burst of speed and is likely to have delayed the global second of reckoning by about three years.
World Mar 19 UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice.
Nation Mar 18 Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93 Before Apollo 10, Stafford also took part in the first rendezvous of two U.S. spacecraft in 1965. A decade later, he because the first American to shake hands with a Soviet citizen in space when an Apollo spacecraft docked with…
Science Mar 07 Earth has shattered global heat records for the 9th straight month, scientists say The European Union's climate agency Copernicus says February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans set new high-temperature marks.
Science Feb 27 Sea ice lows, extreme ocean heat of 2023 offers glimpse of future warming, study says Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current warming levels.