The USA’s weather isn’t going quietly into the new year, thanks to apair of blizzards and a widespreadflood threat.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
World’s largest collection of ocean garbage is twice the size of Texas
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, or twice the size of Texas.
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees
A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots.
Beyond Pluto: Spacecraft to fly by distant space rock ‘Ultima Thule’ on New Year’s Day
NASA’s unmanned New Horizon spacecraft, now zooming into outer space beyond Pluto, willfly by a small space rock known as Ultima Thule on New Year’s.
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
Tens of thousands of years ago, agiant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. It could happen again.
Wet Christmas: 67 million at risk of seeing floods on busiest travel days
If you’re one of the 112 million Americans traveling for Christmas, a soaking rainstorm could lead to air and road headaches Thursday and Friday.
Farout: Scientists discover most distant object in solar system
Astronomers have discovered the most distant object in the solar system. It’sabout 11 billion miles from the sun.
The winter solstice is today. A full moon and a meteor shower are coming this weekend.
The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth. In the United States, it happens at 5:23 p.m. ET Friday.
Polar vortex? Back in the day, we called it ‘winter’
The polar vortex could be making a return engagement to the U.S. sometime later this month or in January.
Christmas travel weather forecast: Mostly wet, but not white, for travelers this week
If you’re one of the 112 million Americans traveling for Christmas, a soaking rainstorm could lead to air and road headaches later this week.