Climate

  1. Animals

    Dealing with droughts, museums going digital and more reader feedback

    Readers share their experiences with dry weather in the U.S., discuss how humans mentally sort quantities and more.

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  2. Climate

    Canadian glaciers face drastic demise

    Western Canadian glaciers will shrink 70 percent by 2100, a detailed melting simulation suggests.

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  3. Animals

    Eggs and other land foods won’t feed polar bears

    Polar bears will not be able to survive on land by eating birds, eggs and vegetation, a new review concludes.

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  4. Climate

    Fewer cold snaps in the forecast

    Rapid Arctic warming will reduce the frequency of cold snaps throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, new research suggests.

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  5. Climate

    Antarctic ice shelves rapidly melting

    Melting around Antarctica is accelerating, with several ice shelves projected to vanish entirely within 100 years.

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  6. Climate

    Rain slows whipping hurricane winds

    Taking raindrop drag into account — which may slow hurricane winds by as much as 30 percent — could help improve hurricane forecasts.

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  7. Climate

    Winter storms 24 times as deadly as estimated

    By ignoring car and plane crashes related to bad weather, U.S. tallies of winter storm deadliness severely underestimate hazard.

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  8. Paleontology

    Rise of East African Plateau dated by whale fossil

    A whale fossil is helping to pinpoint when the East African Plateau started to rise and how the uplift played a role in human evolution, scientists say.

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  9. Climate

    Arctic warming bolsters summer heat waves

    Sagging storms brought on by rapid Arctic warming worsen summertime heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere.

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  10. Animals

    Insects may undermine trees’ ability to store carbon

    Insects eat more leaves on trees grown in carbon dioxide-rich environments than those grown without the extra CO2. That may undermine forests as carbon sinks in the future.

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  11. Earth

    Volcanic lightning forges tiny glass balls from airborne ash

    The lightning that crackles through volcanic plumes can melt ash into tiny glass beads.

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  12. Plants

    Plant growth patterns changing on much of Earth’s surface

    More than half of Earth’s land surface has seen major changes in factors such as leaf-on date and how much vegetation grows in a season.

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