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Mother Nature’s messengers need consideration year-round. Here’s what you can do to give them a helping hand.

The January 15, 2022, eruption of Hunga Volcano in Tonga continues to break records. According to a new study, the eruption created a “supercharged” thunderstorm that produced the most intense lightning ever recorded. There were nearly 200,000 lightning flashes in the volcanic plume throughout the eruption, peaking at more than 2,600 flashes every minute, the researchers found.

As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of color. 

As the climate changes, living things must adapt to new environmental conditions in one of two ways – either geographically or genetically. While it’s relatively simple for scientists to track and record a species’ geographic movements, proving their genetic adaptation over time can be much more difficult.

Discussions of valuable but threatened ocean ecosystems often focus on coral reefs or coastal mangrove forests.