Subways and buildings emit heat directly into the sublayers of the ground, which can deform the ground and cause city structures and infrastructure to crack.
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory first achieved successful nuclear fusion in December in a major breakthrough after decades of work.
Lingering drought conditions have kept the Mississippi River at abnormally low levels and significantly weakened its flow, allowing salt water to creep in.
An already tragic wildfire season could have been worse owing to drought conditions, but rain from an atmospheric river has delivered much-needed water.
In total, 64% of U.S. adults say both that they’ve recently experienced extreme weather and that they believe it was caused at least partly by climate change, up from 54% in April.
Branson sat down with NBC News while in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. This week he revealed his new climate change coalition, Planetary Guardians.
A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.