Environment
USGS: Crucial Water Cycle Intensifies Across Most of U.S.
July 30, 2019, 8:37 pm EDT
USGS scientists recently discovered that the water cycle critical to life on Earth has intensified across most of the U.S. over the past seven decades
The Sweltering Arctic Is Ablaze
July 19, 2019, 5:35 pm EDT
Meteorologist Kait Parker takes a look at several wildfires that have burned in unusual areas.
Marshall Islands Radiation Higher Than Chernobyl, Fukushima in Some Areas Decades After Nuclear Testing
July 19, 2019, 5:33 pm EDT
More than 60 years after the last blast in the Marshall Islands, scientists say radiation levels are still dangerously high.
Sunken Soviet Submarine Leaking High Levels of Radiation
July 16, 2019, 1:42 pm EDT
A Cold War-era Soviet submarine that has been sitting in the Norweigian Sea for three decades is leaking an unusually high amount of radiation, according to the Institute of Marine Research.
Jim Beam River Runoff Kills Thousands of Fish
July 9, 2019, 10:43 am EDT
State environmental officials are seeing more dead fish as a result of the July 2 fire at a Jim Beam warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky.
Huge Dead Zone Expected in Chesapeake Bay
July 9, 2019, 5:41 am EDT
The Chesapeake Bay has been recovering from years of cleanup efforts, but now it faces a new threat. Experts say pollution washing into the bay from intense rainfall will lead to a huge dead zone.
Huge Yellowjacket Nests are Being Found in Alabama
July 6, 2019, 8:54 am EDT
Several big yellowjacket nests have been discovered in Alabama over the past few years. And climate change may be to blame.
Time for Buyout of NC Beach Town Battered by Weather, Climate Change?
July 4, 2019, 4:47 am EDT
Researchers at Wester Carolina University say North Topsail Beach is so battered by the weather, it mi
Photo Goes Viral of Bird Feeding Her Chick a Cigarette Butt on Florida Beach Bird Cigs Beach
July 1, 2019, 8:17 am EDT
A woman in Florida shot a photo on a beach there that shows just how bad pollution is.
Airplane Contrails’ Warming Effect on Climate Getting Worse
June 28, 2019, 12:29 pm EDT
The warming effect on the Earth’s atmosphere from contrails left behind by airplanes will be significantly worse in just a few decades, according to a new study published in the journal “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.”
