December 5, 2017 Rising seas could submerge the oldest English settlement in the Americas Sea-level rise this century may threaten Jamestown in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas; the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which launches all of NASA's human spaceflight missions; and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina, the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, a new study finds.
November 30, 2017 Lightning bolts are churning out antimatter all over Planet Earth Particles split in the hot belly of a lightning bolt.
November 7, 2017 Good news on warming: Ozone hole is smallest since 1988 Higher temperatures over Antarctica this year shrank the hole in the ozone layer to the smallest it's been since 1988.
October 30, 2017 UN agency: CO2 concentrations grew at record rate in 2016 The U.N. weather agency is warning that carbon-dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased at record-breaking speed last year.
October 24, 2017 Bizarre blue 'flashes and glows' may reveal thunderstorm secrets Bright, blue flashes stretch from the tops of powerful thunderstorms toward the edge of space, providing a fascinating celestial show for astronauts on the International Space Station, and now, scientists are learning more about these showstopping displays.
October 12, 2017 A massive hole just opened up in Antarctica's ice and scientists can't explain it Thanks to its usefulness as an indicator of how badly humans are messing up the Earth with global warming, scientists like to keep a pretty close eye on the ice in Antarctica.
October 5, 2017 Thanks to global warming, airplane turbulence is on the rise Nervous fliers may have more bumpy rides to worry about in the years to come. A new study published in the journal, Geophysical Research Letters, found climate change could cause up to three times as much clear-air turbulence (CAT) between 2050 and 2080.
September 28, 2017 Iceberg 4.5 times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctic glacier Breaking news from Pine Island Glacier, which lost 267km2 of icebergs today, after the internal crack resulted in a large calving event 1/n pic.twitter.com/sLwGTyNTfC
September 27, 2017 Stephen Hawking: Earth could turn into hothouse planet like Venus Earth could turn into a hothouse planet like Venus, with boiling oceans and acid rain, if humans don't curb irreversible climate change, physicist Stephen Hawking claimed in a recent interview.
September 27, 2017 Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica, scientists say A giant "Delaware-size" iceberg that scientists have been monitoring for more than two years has broken off from Antarctica, becoming one of the largest icebergs on record.
