Chicago, Denver and Syracuse saw significant snowfall this week, disrupting travel and operations. Saturday's storm produced record November totals in Chicago with 8.7 inches at O'Hare and widespread cancellations; residents documented conditions. Denver recorded its first measurable snow Saturday (0.2 inches at DIA) while mountain locations reported up to 10.8...
Rochester, Minnesota — A multi-region winter storm moved across the United States this weekend, producing heavy snow, freezing rain and damaging winds that disrupted travel and prompted official warnings. National Weather Service offices and local stations reported accumulations from a tenth of an inch of ice in Alaska to localized...
Scientists captured striking drone footage in the Gulf of California of orcas killing juvenile great white sharks by flipping them into tonic immobility and consuming their livers, a behavior detailed Monday in Frontiers in Marine Science. Lead author Erick Higuera, who first filmed it in August 2020 with Marco Villegas,...
Across rural Maryland, a $424 million plan to run a 67-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line has ignited fierce resistance from farmers who say towers would threaten crops and agritourism. PSEG, building the PJM-backed Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, cites soaring data center demand and warns of grid congestion and possible brownouts by...
Five unoccupied homes in North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the Atlantic on Tuesday afternoon amid rough surf, the National Park Service said. The houses, in Buxton on Tower Circle Road, Ocean Drive and Cottage Avenue, fell between 2 and 2:45 p.m. ET. Officials are contacting owners about debris removal...
UN data show wealthy nations’ climate adaptation aid fell 7 percent to about $26 billion in 2023, leaving them unlikely to meet a $40 billion annual pledge by 2025—still only a fraction of needs. The slowdown echoes wider stumbles: President Trump is pulling the U.S. from the Paris accord, and...
Jamaica is counting the cost after Hurricane Melissa made landfall, flooding western Jamaica, with St. Elizabeth underwater, leaving more than half a million without power, and trapping families as rescue teams work to reach them. Kingston avoided the worst, and the airport may reopen for relief flights tomorrow, while the...
While tracing Shackleton’s Endurance route, researchers in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea found more than 1,000 circular fish nests forming a striking geometric neighborhood. Built by yellowfin notie rockcod on seabed once buried beneath a 200-meter ice shelf, the nests were spotless and arranged solo or in sweeping clusters. The layout...
Bill Gates urged a "strategic pivot" in climate policy, saying the world should prioritize reducing suffering in poor countries, fighting poverty and disease, over near-term emissions targets. In a memo ahead of next month's U.N. climate summit in Brazil, he said innovation will curb warming and called for rigorous, impact-driven...
Far from public view, a new Survival International report warns that at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries—most in the Amazon—are under intensifying pressure from logging, mining, agribusiness and organized crime. Nearly 65% face logging threats, 40% mining, and 20% agribusiness; half could be wiped out within a...
