Previous El Niños fueled wildfires, caused extreme flooding and mega droughts, prompted widespread coral bleaching and disrupted marine life migrations and foraging.
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La Niña is gone, but its effects linger as scientists watch for El Niño and the possible return of “the Blob” ocean heat wave.
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Oceans are holding excess heat, so while El Niño can limit hurricanes, scientists warn storms can still form.
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The Artemis II crew members may be back on Earth after a moon-circling mission, but the next group of astronauts is already getting ready to head to space.
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The loss of bird populations has been documented since the 1970s.
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Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior they said may help the macaques avoid stomach upset from consuming human snacks.
- Paul Rogers The Mercury News
Five years ago, a tragic environmental story unfolded when thousands of giant sequoia trees, an iconic California species that can live for 3,000 years, were killed during multiple large wildfires.
A group of meteorologists is raining on "Miss Congeniality's" parade over the film's famous "perfect date" scene.
Joshua Kutryk will be part of NASA's Expedition 75, a team of four astronauts heading to the International Space Station later in September of this year. The group of Canadian, American and Russian scientists will spend six months aboard the station to conduct research, work Kutryk hopes oth…
Credit: Martin Nicourt/Gibraltar macaques project. Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating sweet and salty snacks offered by or stolen from holidaymakers, research suggests. Snacks such as chocolate bars, crisps and ice cream ha…
Meteor showers are one of the easiest and most magical ways to experience the night sky, but catching a great display takes a little planning.
Victor Glover is among 20 Black astronauts selected by NASA since its first class of Mercury astronauts in 1959, representing roughly 6% of all astronauts the agency has chosen.
The Artemis II crew is back home, safe and sound after setting an incredible record for deep space travel.
A Moncton nature club spent Saturday scraping twigs and feathers from boxes they put up last year to prepare for the upcoming nesting season in May. The CBC's Ian Curran was there.
Read through the obituaries published today in SWVA Today.
Read through the obituaries published today in SWVA Today.
Read through the obituaries published today in SWVA Today.
Read through the obituaries published today in SWVA Today.
Charlottesville has resolved that any art made from the city's former statue of Robert E. Lee can be displayed in a city park. But that still leaves plenty of questions.
Child, 2 months old, dies in car while mother is on the job in Spotsylvania
After 40 years, police have made an arrest in the stabbing and rape of Roberta Walls.
Franklin Zhang died after being struck by a car when he was standing at a bus stop near campus.
Fishermen around the world are spending more time at the dock this spring as soaring fuel costs compromise their narrow profit margins.
New research shows that though the world sees more rain overall, it's getting drier at the same time. How can that be?
No one formally entered the race, but governors, senators and former candidates are fanning out to traditional early voting states, courting donors and rolling out books.
Trump's long-running explanation for not releasing his tax returns was upended Tuesday when a Justice Department document effectively shut down any existing IRS investigations against Trump.
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Kipps Elementary Principal Mark Crummey was among 17 men arrested at a Christiansburg hotel last week.
A $10 million lawsuit accuses a former Roanoke police officer of shooting and seriously wounding an intellectually disabled man who was unarmed during a 2024 encounter.
Lynchburg Circuit Court Judge F. Patrick Yeatts found Tony Brown guilty of first-degree and three other felonies on Monday in the stabbing death of his Nicole Rosser, his ex-girlfriend.
Virginia football wide receiver Jahmal Edrine was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of rape and one count of abduction.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has vetoed a bill that would allow Virginia residents to buy and sell cannabis.
A report by Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth researchers highlighted five “districts on the rise" in Virginia: Richmond, Charlottesville, Danville, Roanoke County and Smyth County.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill into law she says closes a loophole in the state code allowing guns on college campuses.
The increases come from Dominion's multi-year grid modernization project and from the cost of staying plugged into a 13-state regional electric grid that helps the utility meet growing power demand.