State of the Climate: 2020 Ties as Warmest Year on Record
With all the official climate data now in, the world’s surface temperatures in 2020 have been confirmed as effectively tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record.
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Will Climate Change Increase the Presence of Pathogens in Drinking Water?
As storms grow more severe and temperatures climb, contamination of groundwater by animal and human waste could be on the rise as well.
Continue reading →Western Wildfires Are Spinning Off Tornadoes – Here’s How Fires Create Their Own Freakish Weather
It might sound like a bad movie, but extreme wildfires can create their own weather – including fire tornadoes.
It happened in California as a heat wave helped to fuel hundreds of wildfires across the region, many of them sparked by lightning. One fiery funnel cloud on Aug. 15 was so powerful, the National Weather Service issued what’s believed to be its first fire tornado warning.
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