A massive storm will bring wild weather to the U.S. this weekend:blizzard conditions in the Midwest and the chance for tornadoes in the South.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
What is ‘chimp culture’ and how are humans messing it up?
Chimps’ tool use, unique social groups are disappearing because of disturbances from humans.
March sadness: Freezing cold for 220 million Americans, another big storm to blast California
While the main weather story Sunday was the deadly tornado outbreak in the South, the otherbig weather newsis the ongoing record cold in the central and eastern U.S.
Freaky February: A wild, weird month for weather, from heat and cold to snow and rain
It’s the shortest month of the year, but February 2019 had more than its share of weird and wild weather, setting records for heat, cold, rain and snow.
March roars in like a lion: Millions to endure coast-to-coast snow, then ‘punishing’ blast of record cold
March is definitely coming in like a lion over the next few days. A winter storm will spread snow along a 2,500-mile path from California to Maine.
Farewell, fish-and-chips? Atlantic cod, many other fish dwindling as globe warms
Some species of fish are in hot water – literally. Warming oceansfrom human-caused climate change has shrunk the populations of many fish species.
27,000-year-old fossil reveals what life was like for a giant ground sloth, study says
They were big, hairy and freaky-looking, and now we know much more about the world that giant ground sloths lived in 27,000 years ago, a new study reports.
Hundreds flee as record rainfall swamps northern California, but thousands refuse to leave
Rivers swollen by days of heavy rain inundated portions of northern California on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.
New normal? We’re actually getting used to weird weather, study says
The weather has gotten weirder lately… but since we’re getting used to it, we think it’s normal. So we’re like frogs that don’t jump out of slowly warming water.
99.9999 percent chance we’re the cause of global warming, study says
There’s a 99.9999 percent chance that humans are the cause of global warming, a new studyreported. This means we’ve reached the”gold standard” for certainty.