A 10 million-pound blob is riding ocean currents and washing up on the southern tip of Florida. As National Geographic reports, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt—a goopy mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles—is slated to be a nuisance of record breaking proportions this year. In the past decade it’s increasingly become a […]
A rare celestial event is happening this week. On Thursday (April 20), the moon will block out the sun during what is known as a hybrid solar eclipse. According to Space.com, this type of eclipse shifts from total solar eclipse to annular (ring-shaped) as the moon’s shadow moves across the surface of the Earth. The last hybrid solar eclipse happened […]
California’s winter featured torrential rainfall from beginning to end, helping to fill the state’s reservoirs and putting a major dent into the state’s long-term drought conditions. As Accuweather reports, the transition to spring has brought another positive effect to the Golden State, as a “superbloom” of wildflowers has residents and tourists alike rushing to get a glimpse […]
The Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially begin for another seven weeks, but early signs indicate there is more uncertainty than normal with this particular season – all thanks to El Niño. As CNN reports, Colorado State University released its 2023 Atlantic hurricane season forecast on Thursday morning and is predicting 13 named storms, six hurricanes and […]
Predicting the severity of mosquito season is a bit of an imprecise science, like trying to nail down a long-range weather forecast. Actually, it’s a lot like trying to nail down a long-range weather forecast, since mosquito populations fluctuate based on immediate and unreliable conditions, like spring rainfall and small changes in temperature. Generally speaking, more rain […]
A study published this week has found that sea-level rise along the coast of the southeastern United States has accelerated rapidly since 2010, double the global average, raising fears that tens of millions of Americans’ homes in cities across the South will be at risk from severe flooding in the decades to come. “It’s a window […]
The last few weeks have consisted of a steady string of violent storms, dozens of deaths and entire towns left in ruins. As CNN reports, there have been 494 tornado reports so far in 2023 – nearly double the average at this point in the year. Many of these storms have occurred outside “Tornado Alley,” which includes states […]
NASA sent a powerful new instrument into space overnight to track air pollution. If all goes well, it should be able to zoom in to see how air quality changes from neighborhood to neighborhood across North America. That could fill in big data gaps that hide disparities when it comes to who has to live […]
After watching billions of gallons of rainwater wash away into the Pacific, California is taking advantage of extreme weather with a new approach: Let it settle back into the earth for use another day. As Cronkite News reports, while the latest batch of atmospheric river storms lashed the Golden State in March, California Gov. Gavin […]
NASA has selected the four astronauts who, for the first time in five decades, will embark on a journey that only 24 people have ever undertaken—around the moon and back to Earth. The U.S. space agency’s new lunar mission, called Artemis II, will have a crew that includes the first woman, the first Black person, […]