What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
It all comes down to time.
It all comes down to time.
These 200-ton ocean dwellers had a growth spurt 3 million years ago.
As the American population grows and people build homes farther away from urban centers, tornadoes will have more things to run into.
Environmental turbulence during the Ice Age created three different lineages of western spotted skunks.
The effects will be felt across the country.
Blue mussels have evolved stronger shells to protect themselves against rising acid levels in the Baltic Sea.
Finding water on Mars? Amazing! Finding water in Antarctica? Potentially scary.
“I’ve had better days, let’s say that.”
What exactly is a climate scientist, and how do they make sense of the complicated systems that rule our lives on the planet?
It could save the U.S. $77 billion (or more) in healthcare costs and reduce each person’s greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 500 pounds per year.
Up to 86 percent of the ocean surface will be warming and acidifying within the next few decades—unless we take steps to prevent it.
This is a big deal for syrup farmers’ finances, and for U.S. residents who can’t get enough of the sweet stuff.
4. Chicago saw no snow in January or February.
An unseasonably warm winter (what is seasonal anymore, anyway?) has forced organizers to start the capital’s beloved annual Cherry Blossom Festival one week early.