Once nearing extinction, the number of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India is rising – thanks to anti-poaching efforts and mud platforms that keep the massive animals safe from monsoon flooding. Ninety percent of the one-horned rhinos that exist live in India’s Kaziranga National Park, where a census was taken in March. That census showed the […]
Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground, taking on the form of a funnel. Tornadoes can destroy buildings, flip cars, and create deadly flying debris. A tornado can happen anytime and anywhere, bring intense winds of over 200 miles per hour. If you live in an area […]
In January, a rare and severe snowstorm blanketed parts of Greece and Turkey, causing chaos on the streets of major cities and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. Storm Elpida swept across Greece and blanketed Athens with heavy snow, which rarely falls in the Greek capital but has now occurred in a second consecutive […]
In March of this year, a solar storm with a fairly mild G2 level caused some fairly far-reaching, awesome auraborealis “northern lights” in the sky, as well as some frustrating internet fluctuations. It made many scientists start to ponder, what would happen if a severe solar storm descended upon our increasingly tech-dependent world? Some people […]
With the ongoing effects of climate change being seen all over the planet, causing more severe and extreme weather events that we’ve never before experienced, the Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes, where winds can top 160 to 180 mph, are now predicted not to be the max that might be headed our way. In light […]
After two consecutive years of exhausting the hurricane name list, this year is predicted to top those numbers, as 19 named storms are expected this hurricane season, five more than normal. Of the 19 storms predicted for 2022, nine are expected to become hurricanes, and four are expected to become major hurricanes — Category 3 […]
It feels like every day we’re seeing the kind of extreme weather events that are being referred to as the “most,” the “worst,” the “hottest,” the “driest,” the “wettest,” flooding, fires, earthquakes, tornadoes… resulting in billions of dollars in damage and lives lost. According to a report released in August of 2021 from the United […]
A study published in Nature Climate Change in February found the period from 2000 to 2021 was the driest for the Southwestern United States region in 1,200 years. Last year’s drought severity was “exceptional,” researchers said, and all indications are the extreme conditions will continue through 2022. The human-caused climate crisis has made the megadrought […]
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known. Scientists said that these cryovolcanoes — numbering perhaps 10 or […]
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has launched an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices around severe weather events, focusing on the company’s Illinois warehouse where six people died in a tornado strike last winter. The committee is seeking documents and communication records from Amazon within the next two weeks, according to a letter signed […]