The massive wildfires currently burning in Canada and the US are intense enough to generate their own weather systems, cycles of air that soar high into the atmosphere that generate their own lightning storms, sparking new fires on the ground below, then falling in powerful downdrafts that feed fresh airread more
Researchers with Ohio State University have discovered 33 viruses that have been preserved for nearly 15,000 years in a glacier high atop the Tibetan Plateau, with 28 of these viruses not having been known to science before now. The ice cores that contained the viruses were obtained in 2015 fromread more
Extreme weather conditions fueled by climate change are behind the massive wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest and the deadly flooding that has struck Western Europe. One wildfire in Oregon alone has already burned an area larger than New York City, and more than 180 people having been killed byread more
Numerous regions across the globe are baking under oppressive heat waves that are once again breaking records, with the most notable of these events occurring in the north, a troubling indicator of rampant global warming as the high latitudes warm faster than equatorial regions. The US Pacific Northwest hasread more