Earth is racing toward climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds
Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.
Wildfires rage in California as heat wave bakes much of the US
It's been an unusually active wildfire season in California as more than 150,000 acres have already burned this summer, compared to 8,000 acres at this same time last year. (Scripps News)