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Floodwaters surround a bur oak tree southwest of Columbia, Mo., on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. A study published Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in the journal Nature Communications details how warmer temperatures and extra carbon dioxide in the air will make pollen season even more of a bother than it is now. (Kate Seaman/Missourian via AP, File)

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The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastier
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,03/15/22-11:06AM , 95 Reads
Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain’t sneezed nothing yet.
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A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Thursday, April 15, 2021. When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety's side. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

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EXPLAINER: What's behind latest scare at Chernobyl plant?
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,03/09/22-2:35PM , 93 Reads
When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety's side.
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Bruce McDougal watches embers fly over his property as the Bond Fire burns through the Silverado community in Orange County, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2020. The United Nations on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, released a new report on climate change. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

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UN climate report: 'Atlas of human suffering' worse, bigger
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,02/28/22-5:02AM , 92 Reads
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.

And after that watch out.
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As high tide laps against the sea wall tourist walk down the Battery in Charleston, S.C. Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. According to a U.S. federal report released on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050 with major U.S. Eastern cities regularly hit with costly sunny day flooding. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

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US could see a century's worth of sea rise in just 30 years
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,02/15/22-12:09PM , 108 Reads
America's coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns.
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