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Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 15, 2023. Nearly all the experts think 2024 will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

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Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summer
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,05/23/24-9:44AM , 98 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.
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A periodical cicada nymph is held in Macon, Ga., Wednesday, March 27, 2024. This periodical cicada nymph was found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,04/01/24-8:52AM , 121 Reads
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.
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Tourists visit the ancient Acropolis hill during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, on July 21, 2023. Climate change is making heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

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Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Fri,03/29/24-1:11PM , 113 Reads
Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds.
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This image provided by NOAA/NASA In This May 31, 2018 satellite image shows the Earth's western hemisphere at 12:00 p.m. EDT on May 20, 2018, made by the new GOES-17 satellite, using the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster. (NOAA/NASA via AP, File)

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A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,03/27/24-11:01AM , 117 Reads
Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.
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