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Welcome to the Meghalayan age
Scientists have assigned a new name to the era we're living in. They're calling it the Meghalayan - because key data for the timing of the new age were derived from a stalagmite growing in a cave in the Indian state of Meghalaya.
September 12, 2018
Florence tracking toward U.S. coast: How to stay safe
Hurricane Florence is on track to hit the U.S. East Coast as a major storm later this week. Here are some tips if a hurricane is heading toward your area.
September 10, 2018
Summer 2018 was 4th hottest on record for U.S.
Summer 2018 - the months of June, July, and August - was the 4th hottest on record for the contiguous United States, according to a NOAA analysis
September 10, 2018
Top 3 myths about jellyfish
Myth #3: Applying urine to a jellyfish sting can reduce the pain
September 10, 2018
Wildlife hotspots thanks to livestock dung heaps?
Some of the African savannah’s most biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of manure deposited over thousands of years by livestock of wandering herders, says a new study.
September 7, 2018
Tropical Storm Gordon has made landfall
One death has been reported so far from the storm. Gordon's winds were just below hurricane-force last night when it made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
September 5, 2018
Love vines suck life from wasps, leaving mummies
For the first time, biologists have documented dueling parasites in South Florida. When love vines do battle with gall wasps, the result is wasp mummies.
September 5, 2018
Watch it get hotter, 1880-2017
An anomaly is something that deviates from what's standard, or expected. This global warming visualization - created by Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute - shows yearly temperature anomalies by country.
September 4, 2018
Why you can smell rain
What you're smelling is petrichor – a pleasant, earthy scent that accompanies a storm's first raindrops. A weather expert explains where it comes from.
September 2, 2018
Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause
Besides humans, only 4 species are known to experience menopause, and they're all whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.
August 31, 2018
