Posts Tagged ‘climate’
Ahead of the wave
Bump a glass and any water inside might slop over the side. Splash in the bathtub and waves slosh. Toss a rock into a pond and ripples move outward in expanding rings. In each case, the water moves in waves. Those waves carry energy. And the more energy that gets [Read More]
Searching for underground water, from the sky
Keeping track of water makes for tricky science. It drains through soil, slips through cracks in rocks and refills underwater reserves. It bubbles up through springs and runs in rivers. Water evaporates and forms clouds; rain brings it back to earth, where it keeps plants [Read More]
Germy weather
Some people see hail; others see opportunity. I wrote a short snap for Science News for Kids about what a researcher found inside hailstones. Read it here. It was based on a longer Science News article by Janet Raloff. [Read More]
A Tennessee Time Machine
For OnEarth magazine, I covered a climate change experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read the whole story here. [Read More]
