A spell of unseasonably warm weather in winter 2024–2025 has meant less snow for parts of the normally frozen state of Alaska.
Not-so Snowy Alaska
articles
Burn Grasslands to Maintain Them: What Is Good for Biodiversity?
As grasslands get abandoned, controlled burning is discussed as a labor-saving method of keeping forests at bay.
Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Delivers Significant Environmental Benefits
When hurricane-force winds whipped through Los Angeles County in early January 2025, the hills had ample fuels available to feed a wildland fire.
Life Cycles of Some Insects Adapt Well to a Changing Climate. Others, Not So Much.
Grasshoppers that overwinter as juveniles have a head start on those that emerge in the spring.
The Allure of Searles Lake Salts
For decades, rockhounds gathered each year at Searles Lake in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. Wielding crowbars and pickaxes, they hunted for showy deposits of minerals such as halite, trona, calcite, and dolomite.
How Does the Atmosphere Affect Ocean Weather?
New research reveals the surprising ways atmospheric winds influence ocean eddies, shaping the ocean’s weather patterns in more complex ways than previously believed.
