Maddie Stone
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California’s Viral Fire Tornado Has Scientists Searching For Answers
Weather geeks went wild last week when the US National Weather Service announced that the Carr Fire near Redding, California had spawned the equivalent of an EF-3 tornado on July 26. And for good reason: Fire tornados are among the rarest weather phenomena on Earth and this vortex had the added distinction of possibly being…
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The Mendocino Complex Fire Is Now The Largest In California’s History
An enormous bushfire in northern California has become the largest on record for the state, less than a year after the Thomas Fire in southern California earned that dubious distinction. It’s the latest reminder that we now live in an era of fast-growing, hard-to-contain megafires.
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Why Climate Scientists Depend On Alaska’s Indigenous Communities Now More Than Ever
Arnold Brower Jr., a 70-year-old Iñupiat whaling captain, can recall his first encounter with scientists clearly. It was 1977, and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) had just placed a moratorium on bowhead whale hunting, after a US government-led population survey determined the marine mammals’ numbers to be dangerously low. But Brower, who has been hunting…
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More Evidence That Pink Snow Will Be A Problem For The Planet
Last year, a team of European researchers was alarmed to learn that glaciers covered in pink snow — caused not by an Ocean Spray truck collision, but by snow-dwelling red algae — were melting faster than the surrounding white ice. Now, another group of researchers has observed the same phenomenon halfway across the world in…