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2016-17 winter outlook for US
NOAA's outlook for this winter predicts a warmer, drier South, and cooler, wetter North. Drought is expected to persist in California and expand in the Southeast.
November 30, 2016
Night-shining clouds over Antarctica
The AIM spacecraft has spotted noctilucent clouds - aka night-shining clouds - above Earth's southernmost continent. The season for them started early this year!
November 27, 2016
Signs of climate change at Arctic tree line
Near the Arctic Circle, in northern Alaska, is where forests give way to tundra. Researchers are looking at how the warming climate might affect the ecology of this northern boundary.
November 25, 2016
A mystery in the clouds
A peculiar ring in the clouds over Warwickshire, England this month sent the Cloud Appreciation Society's Gavin Pretor-Pinney on a hunt for answers.
November 23, 2016
Southeastern US wildfires still blazing
Fires continue to blaze in the southeastern United States with no end in sight. Here’s a satellite look at a few of them.
November 22, 2016
Climate change affecting all life on Earth
A new analysis of hundreds of studies says that almost every aspect of life on Earth has been affected by climate change ... and that's not good news for humans.
November 22, 2016
Drought still grips southern California
California has dry spells, but the state hasn't had exceptional drought since at least 2000. Now, about 20 percent of California is in exceptional drought, and many trees have died.
November 19, 2016
What happens if the sun disappears?
Some things that would happen here on Earth if our giant source of heat and light were to vanish from the sky, and how long it would take.
November 19, 2016
China’s new feathered Mud Dragon dino
A Chinese construction crew unearthed a new dinosaur fossil. It had feathers and a beak. A scientist called it "one of the most beautiful, but saddest, fossils I’ve ever seen."
November 15, 2016
2016 likely hottest year on record
It'll be the hottest year on record unless the final weeks of 2016 are the coldest of the 21st century so far, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
November 15, 2016
