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Windblown embers can trigger spot fires much further away than expected. Now a new mathematical model of the way the wind interacts with firebrands explains why. 

Why Controlled Burns Sometimes Mutate into Runaway Wildfires  

Only a tiny percentage of the globe experienced cooler than normal temperatures during January through October. As the red and pink colors in this map of the globe show, almost all of Earth's surface was unusually warm — and a significant portion, including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, was record warm. (Credit: NOAA)

Feverish Earth

This year likely will end as warmest on record, and new findings show Earth's icy places are suffering. Meanwhile, CO2 emissions continue rising — and efforts to turn the climatic tide are increasingly threatened.

As International Climate Talks Devolve Into A "Circus," Unsettling News About Global Heating Emerges

A researcher looks out at Arctic sea ice in polar winter. (Credit: Łukas Piotrowski/National Snow and Ice Data Center)

The Arctic at Night

Even as winter takes hold in the Arctic, sea ice there is growing sluggishly. In Antarctica, summer’s arrival has driven sea ice to near-record lows.

A Warming Climate Continues to Ravage Sea Ice at Both Poles

(Credit: Bryan R. Smithy/AFP via Getty Images)

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Hurricane Milton flooded parts of the Tampa Bay region just days after Hurricane Helene made landfall nearby.

How the Existential Terror of Hurricanes Can Fuel Climate Change Denial

Simulated 3D visualizations like this, powered by cutting-edge high performance computing systems, are helping researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory improve the performance of wind turbines that generate electricity. How we vote will help determine whether the pace of job-creating energy innovation will quicken, stall, or fall. (Credit: Werner Slocum, NREL)

Renewable Energy Innovation

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