Tag: Heat wave
Power outages across the Plains: 4 questions answered about weather-driven blackouts
Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin
Editor’s note: Amid record cold temperatures and skyrocketing energy demand, utilities...
Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably...
Mark Serreze, University of Colorado Boulder
With the setting of the sun and the onset of polar darkness, the Arctic Ocean would normally be crusted...
Western wildfires are spinning off tornadoes – here’s how fires create...
Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara and Leila Carvalho, University of California, Santa Barbara
It might sound like a bad movie, but extreme wildfires...
To protect people in the Great Lakes region from climate extremes,...
Nicholas Rajkovich, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
This story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative.
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Adapting cities to a hotter world: 3 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Heat waves can be deadly, especially when they combine high temperatures with elevated humidity levels that make the air feel even...
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47...
Paul South, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Can you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
