They’d been on our planet for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially vanished forever.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
New Year’s Eve weather forecast: Will rain, snow, cold ruin your celebration?
Another wild year for weather draws to a close tonight. Could it deliver one last hurrah and wreak havoc with your New Year’s Eve plans?
2018 was an all-time record quiet year for tornadoes in the U.S.
Although 2018 was a deadly and devastating year for wildfires, floods and hurricanes, one weather phenomenon was absent from the news: Tornadoes.
Friday fury: Two blizzards blast Midwest, Southwest; 50 million face flood threat in East
The USA’s weather isn’t going quietly into the new year, thanks to apair of blizzards and a widespreadflood threat.
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees
A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots.
Beyond Pluto: Spacecraft to fly by distant space rock ‘Ultima Thule’ on New Year’s Day
NASA’s unmanned New Horizon spacecraft, now zooming into outer space beyond Pluto, willfly by a small space rock known as Ultima Thule on New Year’s.
Christmas travel weather forecast: Stormy Friday, then mostly quiet except for Northwest
The rain and storms that lashed the eastern U.S. on Thursday will continue to peltportions of the East on Friday, leading to more travel troubles.
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
Tens of thousands of years ago, agiant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. It could happen again.
Hoping for a white Christmas? Dream on
Unless you live in the western mountains or in far northern portions of the Midwest or Northeast, it’s unlikely you’ll see snow on for Christmas.
The winter solstice is today. A full moon and a meteor shower are coming this weekend.
The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth. In the United States, it happens at 5:23 p.m. ET Friday.