Pacific Heat

Clouds are complex, elusive, and the greatest source of uncertainty about how hot the Earth will get in response to carbon dioxide. Meet the scientists who try to catch them.

Ocean temperatures have skyrocketed in the northeast Pacific, ushering in conditions reminiscent of 2015. In other words, the Blob is back, and it could spell trouble for wildlife and fisheries from Alaska to California, according to data scientists with the …

THE SARGASSO SEA—Ana Paula, the Esperanza’s officer in charge of the crew and equipment, readies the great white crane to drop the manta trawl into the Sargasso Sea. The trawl’s yellow wings and nearly 10-foot long mesh net that give it the appearance of a ma…

Achieving a good night’s sleep isn’t always easy. Busy schedules, frequent stress, and bad rest environments can be culprits for sleep troubles. And those sleep troubles are more common than you think. If your sleepless nights are taking a toll on your health…

Henk Rogers brought Tetris to the world. Now, he wants to help get us to the moon and Mars, while making sure we still have a home on Earth.

Scientists at the Florida Aquarium reproduced coral from the Atlantic Ocean in a lab for the first time. They mimicked the natural conditions that signal corals to reproduce, like sunsets and moon phases. They borrowed techniques from researchers at the Horni…

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate: The Brazilian Amazon has experienced more than 74,000 fires this year, whereas last year's total was around 40,000. About 10,000 of the 2019 fires have started in the past couple of weeks. Some of these fires…

4 dead, 29 missing in California dive boat fire; crew jumped CP24 Toronto's Breaking News The bodies of four people who died when a raging fire swept through a dive-boat off the Southern California coast were recovered Monday as authorities said... View full …

Scientists are monitoring a new ocean heat wave off the U.S. West Coast, a development that could badly disrupt marine life.

All 34 people on a weekend expedition off the California coast are presumed dead. Authorities have called off the search for survivors.

China's state-run media have launched a co-ordinated attack on the company that runs Hong Kong's train network for its perceived support of pro-democracy protesters, echoing a campaign against Cathay Pacific. As hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in the f…

A marine biologist and two high school students are among those believed to have died after a fire erupted in the middle of the night on a boat off the Southern California coast.The US Coast Guard has suspended its search efforts after confirming that at leas…

After slamming Canada over the weekend, Dorian has finally moved out to the northern Atlantic Ocean and has lost all of its tropical characteristics.

Something killed 121 gray whales this summer and scientists are struggling to find out what it was. Many were emaciated and appeared to be starving.

California bill outlaws fur trapping, North Dakota pipeline spill much larger than reported, and more

Cigarette butt gets man arrested for Dakota pipeline protest 3 years later, Colorado asks EPA to downgrade its cities’ air ratings, and more

Bill McKibben on what would happen if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries decided to move away from fossil fuels, and on how the financial sector affects climate change.

Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach, Nicola Twilley writes.

Ian Frazier on why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

With just three months left in the year, there are plenty of big games still to come.