A zombie cyclone just rose from the dead
The former hurricane, Paulette, essentially died last week, on Sept. 16. But Paulette has risen again, in the form of a tropical storm (meaning an organized storm with wind speeds…
Arctic ice drops below a grim benchmark
Atop Earth, ice is vanishing. The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Monday that Arctic sea ice, which has historically blanketed the expansive Arctic ocean, fell to its lowest…
Famed NYC clock is now counting down to Earth’s climate change ‘deadline’
Anyone who has walked through New York City’s Union Square and managed to look up has seen it: A large, multi-numeral digital clock embedded on the side of a sky…
Hurricane Laura’s impact lingered with nightmarish mosquito swarms
After Hurricane Laura hit land in the southern United States in late August and devastated the Louisiana coast, the storm surges and rainfall it brought along flooded the region. That…
Hurricane Teddy’s eye looks like a giant stadium
Storm investigators flew through Hurricane Teddy on Thursday, capturing impressive imagery of the cyclone’s stadium-like eye. A big, clear eye is indicative of a powerful hurricane (on Friday morning, Teddy…
Facebook launches climate change information center
Facebook has launched a new resource to help in the fight against climate change. On Tuesday, ahead of the annual Climate Week summit in New York City, the company announced…
Why the Atlantic is teeming with storms right now
The Atlantic is churning with storms. There are currently five tropical cyclones spinning in the Atlantic Ocean, making for some vivid satellite imagery of an aggressive, bustling sea. As of…
Colossal fires look ever more menacing, viewed from space
If intelligent life beyond Earth (should it exist) could view our planet right now, they might be astonished by the great plume of smoke curling over the ocean. It’s a…
Watch a plane fly through San Francisco’s orange, dystopian skies
The dystopia is colored orange. The profoundly dense smoke layer over the San Francisco region on Sept. 9, born from California’s record-breaking fire season, resulted in a dramatically orange glow…
Fire experts: Western fires are ‘unreal’
Wildfire experts and meteorologists are aghast at the explosion in Western wildfires. Massive, rapidly moving fires have come alive in California, Washington, and Oregon as potent winds fanned flames over…