A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya.According...
These Maps Show Just How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Dry conditions across Southern California in early January 2025 set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires...
Los Angeles Will Remain at High Risk of Fire Into Next Week
Devastating wildfires continued to burn throughout the Los Angeles metro area on Friday, extending mandatory evacuations and school closures across the region. Next week promises little chance of relief; conditions...
The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit...
Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
The second is whether we’re continuing to deal more and more people into the transformation. We’ve got over 100,000 farmers and ranchers that are now taking on climate-smart agricultural practices....
How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health—And How to Protect Yourself
As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods with smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains...
Global Warming Is Wreaking Havoc on the Planet’s Water Cycle
Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes,” according to the Global Water Monitor 2024 report. The document, produced by an international consortium led by...
The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires
“With those winds being very calm this morning, I believe we can actually make some progress, turn a corner, and start to build some containment on these fires,” Brent Pascua,...
These Newly Identified Cells Could Change the Face of Plastic Surgery
So how could this new cell elude scientists and doctors for so long? In a way, it didn’t. Plikus and his graduate student scoured centuries of scientific papers for any...
The Los Angeles Fires Will Put California’s New Insurance Rules to the Test
Lloyd and his wife later bought another home in Hidden Valley Lake, a town that has taken ambitious steps to reduce flammable vegetation, but their insurance premium is still more...