Despite having been downgraded from a fierce Category-5 storm to a Category-2, hurricane Dorian had stalled over the northern Bahamas for over 36 hours–extremely unusual behavior for a tropical storm–killing at least nine people and destroying tens of thousands of homes, causing “unprecedented and extensive” destruction, according to Bahamian Primeread more
A recent recalibration of past climate models has revealed that we appear to have been underestimating the rate of the increase in global temperatures, with the change in the world’s ocean temperatures being off by a tenth of a degree Celsius. This new finding itself may stem from the ongoingread more
There’s a glacial lake in the Himalayas that holds a dark secret, in the form of the over three hundred unidentified human skeletons that reside there. The identities of the individuals that perished in and around the tiny lake have perplexed experts for decades—who were they, where did they hailread more
On August 8, a nuclear accident occurred at a Russian weapons testing site near the village of Nyonoksa, located on the shores of the White Sea. Five people were initially killed and three to six injured in what Russian officials called a failed test of an “isotope power source forread more