Some of world’s wild weather tied to global warming
Climate change caused Australian heat wave, but not Colorado’s heavy rains in 2013
DATE: Oct 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
SETH BORENSTEIN
Position: Staff reporter
Weather forecasts get more local
WASHINGTON – The next time some nasty storms are heading your way, the National Weather Service says it will have a better forecast of just how close they could come to you.
The w...
DATE: Sep 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Scientists unveil giant dinosaur that lived in water
WASHINGTON – Picture the fearsome creatures of “Jurassic Park” crossed with the shark from “Jaws.” Then super-size to the biggest predator ever to roam Earth. Now add a crocodile snout as bi...
DATE: Sep 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Ozone layer bouncing back
Scientists credit global cooperation
DATE: Sep 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
How will warming affect birds?
WASHINGTON – As the world gets warmer, the Baltimore oriole will no longer be found in Maryland. The Mississippi kite will move north, east and pretty much out of its namesake state. And the...
DATE: Sep 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Polar vortex chills tied to melting sea ice
WASHINGTON – Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it.
A new study says that...
DATE: Sep 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
How do you foil a virus mutating hundreds of times?
Scientists genetically mapping Ebola, strains
DATE: Aug 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers
WASHINGTON – More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.
Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 di...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Scientists make their own transformers
WASHINGTON – In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic in...
DATE: Aug 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Gene map unravels mental illness
Immune system connected to schizophrenia
DATE: Aug 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
New study traces dinosaur evolution
Report traces how they evolved into birds
DATE: Aug 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
NASA rovers will test making oxygen on Mars
Tests planned to prepare for future missions
DATE: Aug 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
