costs in historical context. The billion-dollar disaster events during 2020 caused $95.0 billion in damages (red line below), which is the fourth-highest inflation-adjusted annual cost total since 198 ...

Goderich, killing one person and injuring 37 more. It was the strongest tornado to hit Ontario in more than 15 years, causing $75 million in damages. ...

and summarize what is happening in the process. Model demonstrates how atoms break and make bonds in the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. A rare attempt at trying a hands-on physical model ...

ocean depths--scientists have since learned that as air temperatures have increased in the atmosphere, the surface ocean has been taking up an increasing amount of heat. But the fate of all the excess ...

energy) to power our homes and buildings, thus emitting far less heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. * Where feasible, we can drive electric vehicles instead of those that burn fossil fuels; or w ...

Transcript . The lead character in the 2011 climate story was La Niña—the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation—which chilled the central and eastern tropical Pacific at both the start and ...

but a handful of weather stations across Alaska reported well below-normal precipitation in May 2011, placing that month in a statistical tie with May 1974 as the driest May since records began in 191 ...

belt is the South Pacific Convergence Zone, where the prevailing easterly trade winds blowing in off the Pacific meet weaker winds blowing in from the west. Where they converge, the winds boost warm, ...

California gets the majority of its annual precipitation between December-February, often in the form of soaking storms called atmospheric river events which help to saturate the ground and build a la ...

hemlocks, a key tree species in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, are dying from infestations of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect that spread across the region beginning in the mid-199 ...