The search for Earth’s ultimate deep freeze has moved from a hunch on a map to a pinpoint on a ridge where winter never lets go. For decades, Vostok Station held the crown with a staggering air temperature of minus 89.2 degrees Celsius, but satellites have now revealed skin temperatures even lower on a high ...
Marine science has always been full of surprises. Yet few discoveries have been as unexpected as the connection between whale migrations and storm forecasting. When researchers first noticed patterns in whale movement data that seemed to predict atmospheric changes, it sounded almost too fantastic to be true. Today, this revolutionary approach is transforming how we ...
The specter of truly catastrophic flooding has been haunting scientists across North America as our climate continues to shift in unprecedented ways. From California’s Central Valley turning into an inland sea to entire coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest being swallowed by rising waters, the question isn’t if megafloods will return, but when they’ll strike ...
