Water supplies are sensitive to a lot of different factors, including extreme weather and an evolving climate. As global temperatures rise, regional changes could have a growing impact on access to clean water. … Read More
It's not easy to explain the relationship between extreme weather events, such as a record heat wave, and global climate change. Although emissions of greenhouse gases are making heat waves more common and more severe overall, you can't say that a specific event is due to global warming. … Read More
A warmer than usual January helped make this year's Polar Bear Plunge a little more, well, bearable, for this group's run into the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland during the Maryland State Police event. The Polar Bear Plunge is a charity function benefiting the Maryland State Special Olympics. … Read More
If you want to think about it another way, by one calculation, there were 19 times as many record highs set in January in the U.S. as record lows. We've had daffodils poking out of the ground. Can the crabgrass be far behind?… Read More
The weather pattern responsible for bringing the frigid air to Europe and Eurasia, and keeping it there, is being driven in part by a naturally-occurring pattern of climate variability known as the Arctic Oscillation.… Read More
While much of the U.S. has had a mild winter this year, record cold and snow are being blamed for more than a hundred deaths in Europe. According to the Associated Press, snow has fallen as far south as the Adriatic Sea, and the Black Sea has frozen along the Romanian coast. … Read More
And the final score was . . . Wait, you thought we were going to talk about Sunday night’s football game? That small clash between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 46, watched by more than 100 million fans in the U.S.? Well, we are. Sort of. … Read More
Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular 'Blue Marble' released last week. The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. … Read More
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