Weather

The Mud Is Coming to the Ukraine War: Russian forces are pushing for small tactical gains in Ukraine before the impending muddy season halts large-scale mechanized operations. The shift to...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Newer, more accurate, and timely weather data, tailored to the needs of military decisionmakers, can enable leaders to adjust tactics, change course or make advantageous...

During the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom, enemy Iraqi and terrorist forces often used sandstorms, cloud cover and inclement weather conditions to evade detection by overhead surveillance drones. While this did...

In recent years, it often seems that the wildfire season in the United States continues to get longer and deadlier. In fact, this year California has endured what is now...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It was a bad idea—for many, many reasons. There are few natural forces that kill so many and cost so much as the hurricane. Hurricane...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The F-22 Raptor may be the most elusive fighter ever built. But this October, the Air Force discovered that a Raptor with its wings clipped...

A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in...

Almost 200 people dead and many others still missing. Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Communities devastated. Thousands of homes destroyed and their occupants traumatised. I am a flood forecaster who...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The storm flipped a fourteen-ton F-15 used as monument on its back, destroyed all of the homes of base personnel and their families, scattered trailers like matchsticks,...

The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious,...

From Sunday to Monday, more than a hundred million Americans—spanning from Minnesota to Maine—were under winter weather alerts and warnings.   The massive snowstorm had already slammed California with roughly fifteen...

Boxing Day 2020 was so blustery that more than half of the UK’s daily electricity was met by wind power for the first time. Just over a week later, the...