October 20, 2015 Robot gliders see how Antarctic ice melts from below Scientists suspect Antarctica's shrinking glaciers are melting from the bottom up, and a fleet of robot ocean gliders may help explain why.
October 20, 2015 How Farmers’ Almanac's figure out Mother Nature For close to 300 years, varying incarnations of the annual farmer’s almanac have tried to do just that, and then some. But is it really relevant to the 21st Century? Its supporters certainly think so.
October 20, 2015 Current Lake Superior ice cover is nearly 20 times more than last year It may be spring, but for the Great Lakes, particularly Lake Superior – it’s looking like winter more than ever.
October 20, 2015 UN author says upcoming climate report 'alarmist,' pulls out of writing team One of the authors of a draft United Nations report aimed at helping governments reach an international climate agreement has pulled out of the writing team, claiming his colleagues were being too "alarmist" about the threat.
October 20, 2015 Can backyard hockey reveal global warming? Volunteers track shifts in temperature with their homemade rinks.
October 20, 2015 UN's massive new climate report adds little explanation for 'pause' in warming A 2,200-page report released by the U.N. today details the scientific data behind alarming predictions for the planet's climate issued on Friday. Yet it offers little additional explanation for one particularly controversial area of climate science: the “pause” in global warming.
October 20, 2015 Warming whoops: Scientists debate the falling rate of rising temperatures The world has warmed 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit per decade over the past 15 years, a fraction of the 0.36ºF per decade rate confidently predicted by the U.N. six years ago, according to a leaked copy of the foremost climate report in the world.
October 20, 2015 NASA confirms Curiosity rover found evidence of ancient stream on Mars A fresh analysis by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars.
October 20, 2015 Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow contest inspires students to pursue STEM Samantha Hoover, 14, said it didn’t sink in that she would be presenting work she did for a school project at the 2015 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow event in New York City until she stepped on the plane. It was the first visit to the city for the ninth grader from James Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
October 20, 2015 Study links changing winds to warming in Pacific A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming.