Articles by

Carolyn Gramling

Zigzag walls could help buildings beat the heat

Here’s a twist: Adding zigzags to walls could help cool an overheated building, even as global temperatures...

Earthquakes added to Pompeii’s death toll

In A.D. 79, a massive volcano in southern Italy suddenly, explosively awoke, leading to one of the...

Record-breaking Coral Sea temperatures threaten the Great Barrier Reef

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in...

Earth’s jet stream helps create the seeds of clouds

Scientists have sussed out a new source for the seeds of clouds. When the stratospheric layer of...

Earth keeps breaking global heat records

Earth now is hotter than it’s been at any time in recorded history. Average global...

Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of...

Why this year’s climate conditions helped Hurricane Beryl smash records

Hurricane Beryl, the Atlantic Ocean’s first hurricane in 2024, began roaring across the Caribbean in late June,...

Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur

A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but...