A potent winter storm that dumped heavy snow on the Rockies Monday will crawl toward the central and eastern U.S. this week, weather forecasts say.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Warm water discovered beneath Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier, scientists say
Scientists have found warm water underneath the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, which could speed up the melting of the Florida-sized block of ice.
New global temperature record is ‘likely’ within the next five years, report says
The world will set a new temperature record within the next five years, scientists from the United Kingdom’s Met Office said Thursday.
‘Wine is like the canary in the coal mine.’ Climate change is threatening our wine supply
The world’s wine regions could shrink dramatically due to human-caused climate change, a new study suggests
Walking sharks discovered near Australia but there’s no need to head for the hills
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We can now hear the voice of a mummy 3,000 years after the Egyptian priest last spoke
Using 3D printing and medical scanners, scientists have recreated the voice of an ancient 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy
How close are we to Doomsday? We’ll find out Thursday.
Thursday morning, the folks who keep track of the “Doomsday Clock” will tell us how close we are to midnight.
Scientists just discovered that an asteroid may have ended ‘Snowball Earth’ 2.2 billion years ago
Some 2.2 billion years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, leaving behind a massive, 43-mile-wide crater in what’s now Western Australia.
‘Hazardous’ travel ahead: Weekend winter storm to wallop Midwest and Northeast with snow and ice
A winter storm will dump snow and ice across a wide swath of the northern USA on Friday and into the weekend.
Climate change has Australian wildfires ‘running out of control,’ experts say
Climate change didn’t ignite Australia’s fires, but it’s turning them into catastrophic blazes by creating warmer temps and increasing fuel available.