Earth’s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland
By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland’s giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.
The heat goes on: June was the toastiest on record, and July may follow
Europe shattered June temperature records by far, while other records were set in Russia, Africa, Asia and South America.
UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species
The findings are not just about saving plants and animals, but about preserving a world that’s becoming harder for humans to live in, said Robert Watson, a former top NASA and British scientist who headed the report.
US heat records are falling twice as often as cold records
Since 1999, the ratio has been two warm records set or broken for every cold one.
Scientists confirm existence of a different kind of orca off southern Chile
They are hard to find because they live far south and away from shore, unlike most killer whales.
Earth’s ozone layer is finally healing
Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said.
Alaska’s Redoubt among 18 U.S. volcanoes ranked as ‘very high threat’ in new assessment
The U.S. Geological Survey is updating its volcano threat assessments for the first time since 2005.
Fast and furious: How a storm named Michael quickly grew into a monster
Michael was barely a hurricane Tuesday morning, with winds of 90 mph. A little over a day later, it had transformed.
Beyond record hot, February was 'astronomical' and 'strange'
Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing temperatures as "astronomical," ''staggering" and "strange." They warned that the climate may have moved into a new and hotter neighborhood.
This winter was the warmest ever recorded in the Lower 48
The winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records for the Lower 48, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming, federal meteorologists say.
Just what are Einstein's gravitational waves?
Astronomers on Thursday announced that their new billion-dollar U.S. observatory has detected a gravitational wave, a phenomenon Albert Einstein predicted a century ago in his theory of general relativity.
Sunshine follows record snowfall along U.S. East Coast as digging-out begins
Millions of Americans began digging out Sunday from a mammoth blizzard that set a new single-day snowfall record in Washington and New York City.