Rainmaking Experiments Boom Amid Worsening Drought
As rain clouds swelled over Fort Stockton, Texas, last summer, a little yellow plane zipped through the sky. It was on a mission. Equipped with tanks of water and special nozzles on its wings, the craft soared beneath the gray-white billows. Then, at just the right moment, it released a spray of electrically charged water
We Can’t Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel Emissions
Credit: Aad GoudappelToward the end of 2022, I was a panelist at a session on climate change held by a major scientific society. Near the end of the session, a prominent scientist declared that we needed to be “realistic”: oil and gas weren’t going away anytime soon, and we had to accept that as we
Scientists Made A New Kind Of Ice That Might Exist On Distant Moons
The “amorphous” solid is denser and could be water “frozen in time”Milling ordinary ice with steel balls disrupted its crystalline structure and led to a novel, denser version of solid water. Credit: Christoph SalzmannScientists have created a new type of ice that matches the density and structure of water, perhaps opening a door to studying
Can We Predict Earthquakes At All?
If we can predict hurricanes, floods, and tornados to differing degrees of reliability, why don’t we know when the next big earthquake will come? Credit: Carlos Schiebeck Getty Images My hometown of Los Angeles is home to the earliest reported earthquake dating back to 1769 (and, of course, many more since then). The largest recorded earthquake in the
Disasters displaced More Than 3 Million Americans in 2022
More than three million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the U.S. in the past year because of hurricanes, floods and other disasters, according to the Census BureauResidents are evacuated from the island by boat on October 02, 2022 in Pine Island, Florida. Residents were encouraged to leave because the only road onto
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