The summer of 2023 was the warmest in non-tropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere for 2,000 years, a new study shows. In this vast land area, spanning Europe, Asia and North America, surface temperatures in June, July and August 2023 were more than 2°C higher than the average summer temperature between 1 AD. and 1890, … Read more
Spring, summer, autumn and winter – the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It’s easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a regular seasonal change. So why does Earth have regular seasons while other planets do not? I am an … Read more
Large parts of the US have been hit by powerful storms, including blizzards that have blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast in snow. But something is wrong: Many states accustomed to white winters are now getting more rain than snow. A new study published Wednesday shows that the human-induced climate crisis has reduced snowpack … Read more
DENVER (AP) — River basins around the world that were once regularly covered in snow are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a new study shows. “Many of the world’s most densely populated basins are on the brink of rapid snowfall,” concluded the study of snow amounts since 1981 in … Read more
Spring, summer, autumn and winter – the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It’s easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a regular seasonal change. So why does Earth have regular seasons while other planets do not? I am an … Read more