Climate change, insecticides, herbicides, light pollution, invasive species and changes in agriculture and land use are causing Earth to lose probably 1% to 2% of its insects each year, scientists say.
FEMA’s index scores how often disasters strike, how many people and how much property are in harm’s way, how vulnerable the population is socially and how well the area is able to bounce back.
Astronomers say there could be other sources for these fast radio bursts, but they are now sure about one guilty party: weird types of stars called magnetars.
The September record was driven by high heat in Europe, Northern Asia, Russia and much of the Southern Hemisphere, said NOAA.
The prize celebrates what the Nobel Committee called “one of the most exotic objects in the universe” and ones that “still pose many questions that beg for answers and motivate future research.”
Telescopes in Hawaii and Chile spotted the chemical signature of phosphine, a noxious gas that on Earth is only associated with life.
Freak natural disasters — most with what scientists say likely have a climate change connection — seem to be everywhere in the crazy year 2020.
Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers.
The two-storm combination could bring a history-making onslaught of wind and coastal flooding from Texas to Alabama, forecasters said.
Tropical Storms Laura and Marco were both projected to approach Louisiana at or close to hurricane force just two days apart next week.
A storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest, killing one woman, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Two giant icebergs, one the size of Manhattan, formed along with lots of smaller ones, and they have already started drifting away.
