It’s the shortest month of the year, but February 2019 had more than its share of weird and wild weather, setting records for heat, cold, rain and snow.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Farewell, fish-and-chips? Atlantic cod, many other fish dwindling as globe warms
Some species of fish are in hot water – literally. Warming oceansfrom human-caused climate change has shrunk the populations of many fish species.
March roars in like a lion: Millions to endure coast-to-coast snow, then ‘punishing’ blast of record cold
March is definitely coming in like a lion over the next few days. A winter storm will spread snow along a 2,500-mile path from California to Maine.
27,000-year-old fossil reveals what life was like for a giant ground sloth, study says
They were big, hairy and freaky-looking, and now we know much more about the world that giant ground sloths lived in 27,000 years ago, a new study reports.
99.9999 percent chance we’re the cause of global warming, study says
There’s a 99.9999 percent chance that humans are the cause of global warming, a new studyreported. This means we’ve reached the”gold standard” for certainty.
New normal? We’re actually getting used to weird weather, study says
The weather has gotten weirder lately… but since we’re getting used to it, we think it’s normal. So we’re like frogs that don’t jump out of slowly warming water.
Climate change could zap clouds, bake the Earth even more
Some of the world’s cloudscould disappearif the carbon dioxide we keep pumping intoour atmosphere soars to extreme levels, a new study suggests.
‘It’s snowing in Hollywood!’ Snowflakes seen in and around Los Angeles
Forget the red carpet Sunday, the Oscars may have a white carpet!
Minneapolis endures snowiest February on record, with blizzard possible this weekend
Sure, we all know it snows in Minnesota, but this month it’s been over the top, with 31.5 inches of snow as of Wednesday.
Neptune’s new moon Hippocamp is so tiny that it wasn’t detected in 1989 during flyby, scientists report
A new moon was found near Neptune, joining the other 13 we knewabout. It’s so small that it wasn’t detected during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989.