3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (205+ words) Gathering that archive required decades of field collection across terrain reachable only by boat or on horseback. By compiling these extensive rock-formation records, the team created spatial maps tracking how vegetation moved, thinned, and died out across different latitudes over…...

4+ day, 18+ min ago   (453+ words) Nineteen miles and thirty-five days are the numbers that travelled. The number the authors handle most carefully is how little dye came back. On the morning of 19 September 2017, a diver in Lake Jackson, north of Tallahassee, ran a hose about…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (391+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (236+ words) El Niño and La Niña represent opposite extremes of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. Under neutral conditions, steady trade winds blow westward across the equator, pushing sun-warmed surface water toward Indonesia and pulling cool, nutrient-rich water up along the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (301+ words) The meteorological winter officially kicks off in France on December 1st. Looking three months ahead, it’s obviously impossible to provide precise weather forecasts. Still, seasonal outlooks already give us a sense of the larger trends that could play out across the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) To dig deeper, scientists at Northwestern University in the United States analyzed 916,904 acute care visits related to heat at emergency departments and clinics in Chicago. This data spanned the city’s hottest months—from June through September—over twelve years. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (332+ words) This feedback loop remains one of the most established mechanisms in climate science. Ice scientist Linette Boisvert of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center describes the process succinctly. Abundant summer sea ice keeps the planet cooler. Its loss, however, leaves dark…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (206+ words) A vintage Champagne (‘millésimé’) is made exclusively from grapes harvested in the same year, one considered special enough to stand out. Vintage can signal a luxury bottle, but it’s not an absolute guarantee. Often, exceptional cuvées rely instead on the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) After Slovenia in Europe, now Venezuela in South America joins a club we’d all prefer to see remain exclusive—one with no perks and ever-more unwilling members. Scientists expect this unfortunate roster to keep growing as our planet continues to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (289+ words) So, what’s changed this year? To sum it up: more than ever before. In the early 1900s, the stripes were calm and blue, signaling cooler temperatures. Then came the 1990s, rocking a red look as temperatures crept up. But from 2010 onwards, things…...