Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Since the most recent El Niño ended in May, the tropical Pacific has resided in a neutral state – […]
Month: September 2024
Astronauts are actually stuck in space all the time
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? If the pair don’t return to Starliner, they could fly again with another crew of astronauts by launching on […]
A distant quasar may be circling all the galaxies around it
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The quasar is so distant that its light took 13.0 billion years to reach us, so we see it […]
The waves of the mantle lift the continents up and adorn them with diamonds
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? At the center of this story are cratons, large blocks of mostly crystalline rock that typically occupy the interior […]
Extreme heat and rain are fueling rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The extreme heat and rain are scary enough on their own, and it’s getting hotter with climate change. But […]
History ‘Wow!’ the signal may finally have a source. Sorry, it’s not aliens
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The original “Wow!” the signal was detected decades ago by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. […]
The flute crabs are migrating north to cooler waters
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? And I thought, what is this crab doing here? It is not supposed to be north of Cape Cod, […]
Ancient DNA reveals a previously unknown lineage of Neanderthals
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The possibility of an isolated long-term Neanderthal population in southwestern Europe supports the idea that these hominids “most likely […]
The Webb Telescope’s look at a stellar nursery also finds minor planets
A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded by a disk of dust that may one day form moons. The detailed discovery, made thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope, could provide new insights into the formation of stars […]
How much climate change is due to extreme weather?
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Scientists can then see whether a specific weather event is more likely or severe in the real world than […]