Space weather: how solar storms shape auroras and risk tech
Space weather drives auroras and can disrupt satellites, power grids, and GPS. Five essential reads cover the science, history, new missions and forecasting efforts.
2026 El Niño poised to be record-setting, with global impacts
The 2026 El Niño is intensifying, with forecasters warning of record strength, hotter oceans, shifting rains, and disruptions from fisheries to the Panama Canal.
Forecasters warn of potentially strongest El Niño in decades
Experts say the strongest El Niño could unfold this year, shaping U.S. weather with lingering fall heat, stormier conditions in the South, and winter hazards.