Extreme weather events, supercharged by climate change, affected some 62 million people around the world in 2018, the United Nations’ weather agency said Thursday.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Weird science: One of Saturn’s tiny moons is shaped like a walnut, another like a potato
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NASA will pay you $19,000 to stay in bed for 2 months
NASA and two other space agencies are looking for 24 volunteers for a study in which people will lie in bed for two months. The pay is $19.000.
Raging rivers wider than the Mississippi roared across Mars eons ago
Mars wasn’t always the red dust ball that it is today. Billions of years ago, hundreds of huge rivers of water flowed across the planet.
$125 million lawsuit filed against Weather Channel for ‘horrific’ crash that killed 3 during a 2017 tornado chase
The mother of a man killed in a “horrific” 2017 car accident filed a$125 million wrongful death lawsuitagainst the Weather Channel.
Coal is the main offender for global warming, and yet the world is using it more than ever
As the world’s economy boomed last year, power plants fueled by coal emittedtheir highest level of carbon dioxideon record.
Alas, the Northern Lights didn’t appear. Why the aurora borealis was a bust this weekend
What happened? The Earth only got clipped by the blast of energy from the sun that triggers geomagnetic storms, which in turn bring aurora borealis.
Spring flooding could be ‘unprecedented’ with 200 million Americans at risk
Spring flooding hasalready been disastrous, and it’s likely to get worse, federal forecasters announced. Floods could reach “unprecedented” levels.
Firearm deaths of US school-age children at ‘epidemic’ levels, study says
A new study announced an alarming increase in the number of firearm deaths of school-age children in the United States: 38,942 inthose5 to 18 years old from 1999 to 2017.
Farewell, Florence and Michael: Names of deadly, destructive hurricanes retired
The names of last year’s two monster hurricanes – Florence and Michael–will never be used again after they were officially “retired” Thursday.