Research Flights Over the Atlantic Could Help Improve Atmospheric River Forecasting 16 December 2025 at 17:37

Research Flights Over the Atlantic Could Help Improve Atmospheric River Forecasting

16 December 2025 at 17:37

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will take flight in January.

A view out the window of a research mission by NOAA into atmospheric rivers over the Pacific in 2023.

Arctic Report Card Marks Record Temperatures and Rainfall in Arctic 16 December 2025 at 14:12

Arctic Report Card Marks Record Temperatures and Rainfall in Arctic

NYT: Science

By:Eric Niiler

16 December 2025 at 14:12

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil into waterways.

A tributary of the Kugaaruk River in northern Alaska turning orange from elevated heavy metal concentrations.

U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say 11 December 2025 at 13:54

U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say

NYT: Science

By:Eric Niiler

11 December 2025 at 13:54

American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.

The opening session of the 7th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

Climate Shift Upends Atlantic Seaweed: One Massive Patch Grows as Another Vanishes 4 December 2025 at 05:05

Climate Shift Upends Atlantic Seaweed: One Massive Patch Grows as Another Vanishes

NYT: Science

By:Eric Niiler

4 December 2025 at 05:05

Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing.

Normal view