Powerful Winds Threaten To Make Southern California Fires Even Worse
The Thomas Fire scorched 96,000 acres by Thursday morning, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.
LEARN MOREParts of the California wildfires are so hot that they're helping form aptly named pyrocumulus clouds.
Over two-thirds of the United States was under some level of a heat alert last year due to rising temperatures.
The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center forecast hail, flash floods and possible tornadoes in Kansas and Nebraska.
Over 100,000 people were left without electricity on Thursday, and Georgia alone had more than 30,000 people affected.
Our oceans are full of plastic — an estimated 200 million metric tons. And it's the microscopic pieces that could be the biggest threat.
In a new report, the International Labor Organization suggested ways for governments to help address the rising effects of climate change on workers.
Engineers had to rearrange code on one of Voyager's computers to avoid memory corruption. Now its science mission is set to continue.