Alaska’s ice is alive with sound – a low, thrumming chorus that rises with summer melt and quiets when winter clamps down. These are seismic “songs,” tiny vibrations from water rushing under ice, walls cracking, and icebergs breaking free. Once dismissed as background noise, they’re now a real-time climate signal scientists can read like ...
The ground looked ordinary until the wind shifted and a thin ribbon of heat shimmered above the leaf litter. That is the unnerving reality of underground coal s across parts of the United States, where seams of buried carbon smolder for years and send up ghostly breath like hidden volcanoes. The science community has ...
On summer afternoons across Washington, rivers that once ran cold enough to sting your fingers now feel like bathwater, and salmon are paying the price. The mystery is not whether heat harms fish – we know it does – but how rising river temperatures are quietly rearranging the timing, the routes, and the very ...
The hottest story in the Southwest is no longer just the midday sun – it’s the long tail of heat that now stretches deep into the night, into fall, and into daily routines. Across Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and parts of California, record temperatures have become less headline and more background noise, reshaping health ...
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be a gauntlet of storms for the U.S. East Coast—one that left meteorologists uneasy, coastal communities on edge, and scientists scrambling to understand the shifting rules of the storm game. Though not all made landfall, the atmospheric slugs that clawed at the Eastern Seaboard inflicted damage through waves, ...
On the fog-cool mornings that once defined California’s coast, a different kind of heat now lurks below the surface. Marine heatwaves have crept into kelp country, and the state’s towering underwater forests are reacting in ways both dramatic and subtle. Scientists are racing to read the signals – thinning canopies, urchin barrens, shifting animal behavior ...
On September 28, 2022, Florida woke to a wall of water and wind that felt almost otherworldly. Hurricane Ian did not just arrive; it rearranged coastlines, rewrote flood maps, and forced a reckoning with how we live on the water’s edge. The mystery wasn’t whether a big storm would eventually come, but why this one ...
By late summer, when thunderheads pile up over Colorado’s spine, the high meadows flash like neon with paintbrush, columbine, and larkspur – and tiny, iridescent bodies flicker through the bloom. Yet the show is changing. Warmer springs and drier valleys are re-timing the mountain clock that guides nectar and the birds that chase it, nudging ...
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 ...
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 ...
