Umbrellas and snow shovels would have beenwise investments over the past three months.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
What is ‘chimp culture’ and how are humans messing it up?
Chimps’ tool use, unique social groups are disappearing because of disturbances from humans.
Alabama tornado stretched for nearly a mile – four times wider than your average twister
The violent, devastatingtornado that roared through eastern Alabama on Sunday was unusual for its for its extreme size, strength, and duration.
March roars in like a lion: Millions to endure coast-to-coast snow, then ‘punishing’ blast of record cold
March is definitely coming in like a lion over the next few days. A winter storm will spread snow along a 2,500-mile path from California to Maine.
Farewell, fish-and-chips? Atlantic cod, many other fish dwindling as globe warms
Some species of fish are in hot water – literally. Warming oceansfrom human-caused climate change has shrunk the populations of many fish species.
27,000-year-old fossil reveals what life was like for a giant ground sloth, study says
They were big, hairy and freaky-looking, and now we know much more about the world that giant ground sloths lived in 27,000 years ago, a new study reports.
Hundreds flee as record rainfall swamps northern California, but thousands refuse to leave
Rivers swollen by days of heavy rain inundated portions of northern California on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.
New normal? We’re actually getting used to weird weather, study says
The weather has gotten weirder lately… but since we’re getting used to it, we think it’s normal. So we’re like frogs that don’t jump out of slowly warming water.
99.9999 percent chance we’re the cause of global warming, study says
There’s a 99.9999 percent chance that humans are the cause of global warming, a new studyreported. This means we’ve reached the”gold standard” for certainty.
Climate change could zap clouds, bake the Earth even more
Some of the world’s cloudscould disappearif the carbon dioxide we keep pumping intoour atmosphere soars to extreme levels, a new study suggests.