https://youtu.be/sCmrqpMvj0k December 15 – 16, 2021 Hurricane-force winds, dust storms, tornadoes, wildfires, snow squalls, heavy…
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Locally named Odette, the storm is one of the strongest recorded on Earth this year…
Tornadoes and severe winds knocked out power to Mayfield and surrounding towns. On the night…
Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change – But Not Enough to Stop It…
Even undisturbed sand piles creep like glass, with grains constantly in motion. Experiments reveal soil…
Once the second-largest lake in Turkey, it now rarely spans an area much larger than…
The missions, including two led by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will help monitor our…
Soils across western Washington and southern British Columbia were saturated for much of the season.…
This coupling of the atmosphere and ocean alters atmospheric circulation and jet streams in ways…
Preliminary reports suggest one tornado may have traveled nearly 200 miles, causing severe damage and…
Researchers modeling tectonic subduction found that plates weaken and crack as they bend but remain…
Flows of superheated ash and tephra mixed with rain to create destructive rivers of debris…
There are two main reasons crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. First, crocodiles…
Glacial retreat could add 6,150 km of salmon habitat by 2100, but warming waters and…
The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was visible from Antarctica, where the Moon blotted…
The nearly 1,000-meter-tall volcano in the South Sandwich Islands frequently finds a way to put…
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of…
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought. More rain than snow will fall in…