Articles by

Carolyn Gramling

Megadroughts are on the rise worldwide

Megadroughts are increasing worldwide — and they’re also becoming both hotter and drier. Over the last 30...

2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record, passing a dangerous warming threshold

It’s official: The year 2024 was indeed the hottest on record. It was also...

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos

The demise of most of Australia’s kangaroo species by 40,000 years ago may have had less to...

AI sniffs out whiskey flavor notes as well as the pros

Humans’ noses can be adept at detecting delicate hints of apple or smoke in a glass of...

The 2024 eclipse gave a rare view of the sun. Here’s a peek at early data

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists threw everything they had at the sky during the solar eclipse that swept...

The 2004 tsunami killed hundreds of thousands. Are we better prepared now?

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where...

Climate change made 2024 the hottest year on record. The heat was deadly

Over and over, the numbers tell the same story: 2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record, knocking...

China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story

One of the most extraordinary fossil beds of Cretaceous creatures in the world formed about 125 million...