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Why do koala bears hug trees?
As temperatures climb, koalas move to cooler trees and go limp, like wet dishrags. Turns out their tree-hugging is a cooling mechanism.
June 4, 2014
Kansas had a heat burst on the night of June 3-4
For a few hours around midnight, in Kansas, temperatures suddenly shot up by 10 degrees F. Meteorologists call it a heat burst. Read how it happens.
June 4, 2014
Severe storms blast through central U.S. on Tuesday
More severe weather expected Wednesday through the Ohio/Tennessee Valley region. Damaging wind and large hail. A tornado threat cannot be ruled out.
June 4, 2014
What caused the record Greenland ice melt in summer 2012?
It was hot in summer 2012, but that year also had record wildfires in the N. Hemisphere. Scientists now think soot from the fires helped melt Greenland's ice.
June 2, 2014
2014 Atlantic hurricane season begins
June 1 is the official start to the Atlantic hurricane season.
June 1, 2014
Identify 500 birds with new Birdsnap app
Take a picture of a bird and identify it. This free new iPhone app is an electronic field guide featuring 500 of the most common North American bird species.
May 30, 2014
Two incredible and scary weather videos
A tornado and a lightning strike. Watch these two scary videos of dangerous weather from the U.S. Great Plains.
May 29, 2014
An ancient battle: A 900-pound croc takes on a 58-foot snake
An ancient, 16-foot, 900-pound crocodile may have been overmatched by a monster snake that swam in the same rivers 60 million years ago.
May 28, 2014
New image of seafloor zone where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might lie
A new illustration of the seafloor, created by two of the world’s leading ocean floor mapping experts, details underwater terrain where the missing Malaysia Airlines flight might be located.
May 27, 2014
April 2014 tied with warmest on record, or second-warmest
Yes, some of us in North America have been shivering this spring. But our local weather is not the whole story.
May 27, 2014
