Category: 9. Environment

A wicked convergence of blustery wind and prolonged drought has prompted devastation in Southern California, as wildfires in Los Angeles have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. According to a new…

The Los Angeles wildfires were still burning when scientists started scouting the freshly charred burn scars to search for signs of another danger that’s yet to come — roaring torrents of rock and mud and water that can sweep…

Climate change has already begun to instigate environment-altering effects around the world, and the latest evidence is cropping up in arctic regions that are emitting increasing amounts of carbon dioxide. Researchers in a new study published in Continue Reading

Human skin isn’t the only thing that can change color after facing the cold. Trees and shrubs change colors, too, taking on a special blue tinge after they are sampled and stained. That’s according to a new study in Frontiers in Plant Science,…

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers have discovered the remains of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old. The discovery represents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in permafrost…

For hundreds of millions of years, wildfires were directed solely by the weather, vegetation and terrain. But in the last century in the…

The headline in the L.A. Times says it all:

5 dead, more than 1,100 structures destroyed as firestorm besieges L.A. County

By the time you are reading this, the devastation will almost certainly be worse.

Since the Palisades Fire exploded on…

Unusually dry conditions and hurricane-force seasonal winds are fueling multiple fast-moving and destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County. Gusts that reached over 145 kilometers per hour (90 miles per hour) quickly drove the…

Landscapes in Southeast Asia once thought to stifle biological evolution may instead stoke its fires.

Karst ecosystems have been referred to as arks of biodiversity, a term that highlights their biological richness but also implies…