Greece is known for its fresh seafood, but one town has gotten more fish than it can handle. Hundreds of thousands of dead sea creatures have washed up in the fishing village of Volos, creating a rancid smell and raising ...
A rare but deadly mosquito-borne virus has sent Massachusetts residents scrambling for cover. Last week, the town of Oyster enacted a voluntary curfew to lessen the risk of people contracting Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE. The decision was prompted by ...
For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why. In June, temperatures in the Atlantic were 2 to 5 ...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Five years ago, when young people started skipping school on Fridays to protest rising carbon emissions, some climate advocates sensed a disconnect. The words commonly used ...
Another, rather terrifying, scenario has caught Lowes’ attention. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a system of ocean currents that helps to distribute warm water from Earth’s southern reaches farther north. This has a big impact on the weather ...
