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When it comes to outside conditions, you might wonder how much of what we experience each day is due to climate change. After all, Virginia has always had heat waves and cold spells. Now, a research center in New Jersey says it’s found a way to calculate the likelihood that high day and nighttime temperatures are the result of global warming as Sandy Hausman reports.
All signs point to our weather becoming more erratic as climate change is causing temperatures to rise. This winter, our temperatures were 2 to 3 degrees above normal. What might that mean for summer?
For all the escalating climate-related threats to iconic and commercially valuable marine life in the Gulf of Maine, scientists say there is one creature we should especially keep our eye on — a barely visible creature that helps whales, puffins and cod survive: the zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus.
Ocean warming is having effects throughout the food chain.
December's un-wintry weather across the Southeast brought lots of unusual scenes: Crowds packing parks and beer gardens, people wearing short sleeves to Christmas parades, and azaleas blooming just before the holidays. Are the month's above-average temperatures a sign we need to reconsider what a normal winter looks like in the Carolinas?