Paleoceanographic reconstructions from the Northwest Atlantic reveal coordinated shifts in Gulf Stream position and upper and lower North Atlantic Deep Water formation during past abrupt climate event...

Residents of a northern Manitoba community have been ordered to leave town because of the "imminent threat" posed by a nearby wildfire.

No matter how you look at it, March weather was unusual. We measured a whopping half inch of rain at our gauge in McKinleyville, the lowest in our 40 years of living here. Our data is backed up by the National Weather Service, which declared March 2026 the second-driest in its 126 years of record keeping, topped only by 1926 when barely a trace of precipitation was documented. Record-breaking temperature highs were reported in many areas of the country, with over 180 sites breaking all-time March records and Phoenix, Arizona, setting a new national March high of 112° 10 days ago. Weather oscillations on the order of days or months are not unusual, but the planet has seen increasingly volatile weather swings in the last decade as the climate warms. While much attention is focused on record-breaking heat waves and rising seas, there are other, potentially more dire, consequences of a warmer planet, and it doesn’t take much sleuthing into the recent geologic past to uncover some of them. The quiet earthquake and tsunami beginning of 2026 has given me the chance to explore geologic nooks and crannies that have always fascinated me. As I poked my nose into the...