New NASA, ESA satellite to continue ocean study
NASA & the European Space Agency launched a new satellite into space on a SpaceX rocket to continue a 30-year study of the oceans.
climate change
Hurricane to hit Honduras (again)
The threat of a 2nd major hurricane to hit Central America this month underscores effects of climate change.
A youth ‘climate corps’ could help ‘green’ America
Many young people care about the environment, based on their social media posts. Here's a chance to do something about it, too.
How citizens prefer to fund environmental action
Growing demand for countries to combat climate change, less consensus on how to fund it. New study offers insight from the US, UK, Germany, France.
Worst Calif. wildfire season in decades
Wildfires in what could be one of Calif.'s worst autumns ever have destroyed structures, including schools, killed people, and mass evacuations.
Weather extremes envelop the Earth
Extreme weather (drought and heat in the summer, cold in the winter) sweeps the planet. A result of climate change?
U.S. tornado alley expands eastward
Research has detected a pattern in the occurrence of tornadoes related to climate change: 'Tornado Alley' is expanding.
Tornadoes after Florence rip through central Virginia
Hurricane Florence and remnants thereof have left broad sections of the Carolinas and Virginia reeling in the aftermath.
Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence are deadly
North Carolina and Hong Kong are in tatters in the wake of deadly storms: Florence in the US and Mangkhut in HK.
Climate change bad for environment & kids’ health
Kids are vulnerable to climate change due to environmental pollution (floods, droughts, & heatwaves trigger humanitarian disasters).