Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be less than 200 years old

Jupiter Red Spot

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The Great Red Spot is the largest vortex in our solar system (SN: 12/12/17). Located in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, … Read more

Your medications can make it harder for you to beat the heat

A man puts a white cloth on a woman

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? For some, chronic health conditions can add an extra kick or two when it comes to regulating body temperature. … Read more

“Turning to Stone” paints stones as storytellers and mentors

Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Bjornerud is exhausted and dizzy. She is dealing with the collapse of her department, the sleep deprivation of early … Read more

Removing sand to create rock can help curb coastal erosion

Debris from a collapsed house litters a beach in North Carolina. In the distance, a house on stilts still stands at the very edge of the ocean.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? But sending low-voltage electricity through waterlogged sands can stimulate the formation of minerals that help bind sediments together, Rotta … Read more

Scientists want to send endangered species to the moon

A photo of Earth taken by a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? “It’s great to have as many plans as possible, especially when it comes to saving our biodiversity and life … Read more

More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean water

A stock image of a person holding a glass under a running faucet. The cup is filling with drinking water.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? This is partly because it can be difficult to collect data on the number of people using safely managed … Read more

A distant quasar may be circling all the galaxies around it

An image of a ring of fire in outer space with a black orb in the center, shown on a diagonal from the side.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The quasar is so distant that its light took 13.0 billion years to reach us, so we see it … Read more