U.S. Power Grid Faces New Stress as October Heat Triggers Emergency Measures
Credit: Karthik Swarnkar | Unsplash An October electricity emergency highlights the increasingly difficult task of maintaining reliable power as extreme weather and expanding energy demands collide with essential infrastructure maintenance. An unusually warm October has prompted federal officials to authorize emergency measures to protect one of America’s largest electricity networks, raising fresh concerns about the […]
March 2026 Was the Hottest March for the Continental U.S.—and El Niño Hasn’t Kicked in Yet!
March 2026 was the hottest month of March on record for the continental United States, with nearly 20,000 daily temperature records being broken over the course of the month, and the overall monthly average beating the previous record holder by nearly a half-degree Fahrenheit. The average temperature for March 2026 across the lower 48 came […]
Seasonal Snow Cover in the North Was Overestimated, According to a New Analysis
A recent analysis of historical snow data gathered by NOAA satellites has found that previous surveys overestimated the decadal growth of the planet’s snow cover by a substantial amount—indeed, while the data was showing an increase in snow cover decade-over-decade, the seasonal snowpack was actually shrinking—meaning the Earth’s surface is less capable of reflecting energy from […]
Iceland Declares Potential AMOC Collapse to be a National Security Threat
While world leaders convene in Brazil at COP30 to discuss the global climate crisis, Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to be an existential threat to the northern island nation’s national security. As one of the many island nations around the world that will be more immediately affected by climate […]