A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. Scientists suspected the 2015-16 El Nino — one of the largest on record — was responsible, but exactly how has been a subject of ongoing […]
Super Bowl LI was a game to end all games with records made and smashed. Despite a slow start, and as the first quarter of Super Bowl LI ended scoreless, the early minutes of the second quarter also remained scoreless, the Atlantic Falcons defense went to work and recovered a LeGarrette Blount fumble. That turnover would result […]
Boulder, Colo.–Unusually high air temperatures and a warm ocean have led to a record low Arctic sea ice extent for November, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). In the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic sea ice extent also hit a record low for the month, caused by moderately warm temperatures […]
A grower in Rhode Island has smashed his own son’s giant pumpkin record with a gourd weighing 1,026 kilograms (2,261 pounds). Richard Wallace’s pumpkin beat the North American giant pumpkin record set by his son, Ron, at the same event last year. Ron Wallace’s pumpkin topped the scales at 1,100 kilograms (2,230 pounds) at the […]