From the blog of Barry Lynn at The Times of Israel ...

There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo lightning, why did it stop briefly and why did it return 160 days later?

Mariposa California's original daily updated online newspaper is the premier site for news and information on Yosemite, ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

A group of scientists from National Taiwan University found that deforestation due to land use changes intensifies surface ...

Despite 2023 and 2024 ranking as the warmest years on record, extreme cold events still gripped parts of China, Europe, and ...

Storms dumped heavy snow and freezing rain on a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to the nation's capital, ...

The snow this week could lead to 1-2" in the Tri-Cities and trace to .5" in the Yakima and Kittitas Valleys by Friday night.

"La Nina is a major factor behind the current dry conditions in southern China," said Gu Wei, a researcher at the center. "It ...

A new study led by CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics investigates the paradox of these record-breaking cold spells and assesses future risks in a changing climate. The study reveals that ...