Notwithstanding last month’s cold snap in Texas and Louisiana, climate change is leading to warmer winter weather throughout the southern U.S., creating a golden opportunity for many tropical plants and animals to move north, according to a new study appearing this week in the journal Global Change Biology.
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New Study Predicts Urban Development and Greenhouse Gases will Fuel Urban Floods
When rain began falling in northern Georgia on Sept. 15, 2009, little did Atlantans know that they would bear witness to epic flooding throughout the city.
Droughts in Germany Could Become More Extreme
In the future, droughts could be even more severe than those that struck parts of Germany in 2018.
Long-Lasting Dust Storm from Chihuahua
Gusty springtime winds turned the skies yellow and beige in mid-March 2021 across northern Mexico, New Mexico, and west Texas.
Particulates Are More Dangerous Than Previously Thought
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time observed photochemical processes inside the smallest particles in the air.
Finding Fire and Ice: Modeling the Probability of Methane Hydrate Deposits on the Seafloor
Methane hydrate, an icelike material made of compressed natural gas, burns when lit and can be found in some regions of the seafloor and in Arctic permafrost.


