By late summer, Phoenix feels like a kiln left open, the city’s edges shimmering as if reality itself is melting. The problem is no longer theoretical: heat is testing infrastructure, budgets, and bodies, pushing daily life into a kind of tactical endurance. Scientists armed with satellites and street-level sensors are mapping a crisis that was ...
Some coastlines seem unlucky; the Gulf Coast feels targeted. Every few years, familiar names circle back like unwelcome callers, and the map fills with the same arcs toward Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The pattern looks personal, but there’s a cool, scientific logic beneath the heartbreak. Warm water, tricky winds, and a coastline shaped ...
Colorado used to treat wildfires like summer storms – brief, brutal, and mostly confined to a warm window. That storyline shattered when megafires erupted deep into October and, shockingly, in late December, carving a new calendar that looks less like a season and more like a year. Scientists now talk about fuel aridity, vapor pressure ...
On a late-summer morning, the blackened hills north of Granby look quiet, but the landscape isn’t still. Needles of green push through ash, mushrooms thread the soil, and elk tracks stitch the edges of the burn. The mystery is whether this fragile momentum can outrun heat, drought, and the next wind-driven fire. Colorado’s future hinges ...
California has always swung between feast and famine, but lately the swings feel sharper, faster, and a little unnerving. Wet winters drape mountains in snow, then a few scorching seasons erase the cushion as if someone yanked the safety net. Scientists warn that warming temperatures amplify this whiplash, nudging the state toward longer, more intense ...
The planet is not waiting for us to catch up. While we argue about climate targets and trade policies, evolution and discovery keep quietly rewriting the catalog of life on Earth. In labs, on coral reefs, in cloud forests, and even in city gutters, scientists are racing to name species before they disappear, or ...
The ocean is already on the move, and it is rising far faster than coastal maps, mortgage contracts, and seaside dreams were built to handle. For most of the twentieth century, sea level crept upward almost politely; now it is accelerating in ways that rattle even veteran climate scientists. What once sounded like a ...
On some level, your brain still thinks the world is stable, cyclical, familiar: summers are hot, winters are cold, and storms are temporary visitors that eventually move on. But step outside that mental script, and the data tell a very different story, one where the entire planet’s weather engine is shifting gear. We’re living ...
By DWS Features Desk | April 20, 2025 James Cameron’s new movie sends you deep into the frozen landscapes of the Arctic, and it’s nothing but breathtaking. Secrets of the Penguins shows us what it’s really like to live with these phenomenal birds, an experience we’ve never had before. A New Frontier in Wildlife Storytelling ...
Far out in the dry badlands of South Africa’s Karoo Basin, fossils have been unearthed by paleontologists that rewrite the book on prehistoric survival and extinction. The fossils are those of Inostrancevia, a giant saber-toothed predator known to science only through Russian fossils until now. The tiger-sized gorgonopsian proto-mammal with reptilian traits somehow traveled an ...
