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November 21, 2016

This state's 102M dead trees should worry you

In drought-stricken California, 36 million trees have died since May, the Los Angeles Times reports.

November 10, 2016

Temperatures spike almost 50 degrees in North Pole

There has been a heat wave of sorts in the North Pole this week that might even have Santa trading in his sleigh for swim trunks.

November 8, 2016

Great balls of snow: Giant snowballs appear on Siberia's coast

Thousands of giant snowballs have appeared on a remote 11-mile stretch of Russia’s Siberian coastline.

October 26, 2016

Cow farts can now be regulated in California

California Gov. Jerry Brown kept up his assault on climate change Monday, pushing through a law meant to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from dairy farms and landfills.

October 24, 2016

UMaine professor dies conducting research in Antarctica

The university says 50-year old Gordon Hamilton died Saturday when the snowmobile he was riding hit a crevasse and he fell 100 feet.

October 14, 2016

A comet may have hit the Earth 56 million years ago, study says

Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time in its climatic history.

September 28, 2016

Solar Impulse team plans solar-powered satellite

The team behind the record-breaking Solar Impulse 2 plane is looking to harness the aircraft’s technology for a new solar-powered satellite.

September 23, 2016

University of Delaware removes Nobel Prize reference from its website

The University of Delaware has removed a reference from its website that described Climate Professor John Byrne as sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Junk Science reports.

September 20, 2016

World record: Bolt of lightning was 200 miles long, experts say

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice-- or so the expression goes-- but sometimes it does something amazing enough to break a record.

September 12, 2016

Last month was hottest August on record, NASA says

This August was the warmest on record globally, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies announced on Monday.