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'Frozen' iguanas everywhere: Florida roads, sidewalks, yards
South Floridians awoke Sunday to find “frozen” iguanas in their yards, streets, sidewalks and driveways after record low temperatures stunned the invasive reptiles.
At 8:50 a.m., 10 minutes before the Florida Wildlife...Read more
Climate change limiting future Olympic sites
The snow-covered slopes near Grenoble, France, have always held a special place in Olympic history.
It was there at the 1968 Olympic Games that France’s Jean-Claude Killy swept all three Alpine skiing gold medals then ...Read more
Coldest daily record lows in over a century hit Miami-Dade, Palm Beach on Sunday, NWS says
Parts of South Florida awoke Sunday to record low daily temperatures, the coldest in more than a century, according to the National Weather Service in Miami.
At the national weather station near Miami International ...Read more
Congaree National Park threatened by pollution, politics after 50 years as preserve
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve faces a rash of other threats that have the attention of scientists and ...Read more
The data center surge has a hidden source of carbon emissions
Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of carbon-intensive ...Read more
Today's Word "Goth"
Goth /goth/ (noun) - A rude or uncivilized person.
"The speaker's announcements swung wildly between statesman and Goth."
From Goth, one of a Germanic tribe who invaded the Roman empire during the third, fourth and fifth...Read more
Everyday Life
I can be hard, I can be soft. I can scratch my fellow self, or I can be scratched. I'm not always as strong as another version of me. I can be used as a form or communication, as well as presents or luxury. Inside and outside the earth's crust I am made, and waiting times range from one day to millions of years. I come in many colors when I am solid, and I can also be grouped together to make another common solid. Controversy has been made ...
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This Day in History, February 1
On February 1st, 1893, Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
More than 1,100 Charlotte airport flights canceled or delayed during latest winter storm
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Travelers hoping to fly in or out of Charlotte Saturday won’t have much luck, as most air traffic has been halted amid Winter Storm Gianna, with up to 11 inches expected to fall in the city by Sunday....Read more
Frozen iguanas in your yard during South Florida cold snap? FWC will take them at 5 drop-off sites
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As South Florida prepares to see some of the coldest weather since 2010, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is allowing for the removal and transport of cold-stunned iguanas ...Read more
Winter storm, chill cancel 2,100 flights, threatens citrus
A winter storm is dropping snow across the South, where more than 2.100 flights have been canceled, as the eastern U.S. faces a continued deep freeze, threatening records all the way to South Florida and menacing citrus ...Read more
SpaceX seeks FCC nod to build data center constellation in space
SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth’s orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk’s latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for ...Read more
Southern US winter storm snarls air travel, threatens citrus
A winter storm is dropping snow across the South, where more than 1,500 flights have been canceled, as the eastern U.S. faces a continued deep freeze, threatening records all the way to south Florida and menacing citrus ...Read more
Today's Word "apparatchik"
apparatchik \uh-pah-RAH-chik\ (noun) - Member of the (Soviet) bureaucracy; now extended to apply to any inflexible organisation man, particularly in a political party.
"Fed up with the usual assortment of apparatchiks and...Read more
This Day in History, January 31
On January 31st, 1958, the Explorer I was launched, becoming the first successful American satellite to be launched into orbit.
The Concealed Proverb
In each sentence a word is concealed, such as the word no in sentence five. If you can find the buried words and read them in order from 1 to 6, they will form a well-known proverb.
1.The word buried here has only one letter.
2.Did you find a jelly roll in Gaskin's Bakery?
3.It's the best one I've ever seen.
4.The rug at her stairway was made in India.
5.He's an old friend.
6.Amos sold his bicycle to a friend.
Trump administration's climate skepticism effort violated federal law, judge rules
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Department of Energy violated federal law when it formed a secretive group of researchers to produce a report downplaying the effects of climate change.
The “Climate Working...Read more
Can Florida's cold snap kill invasive pythons and iguanas? Here's what experts say
MIAMI — With the arrival of cold weather, some people in South Florida see low temperatures as a possible solution to the region’s invasive reptile problem. But that hope cools quickly: species like giant invasive ...Read more
FAA dismisses airline, sonic boom concerns in signing off on SpaceX Starship plans from KSC
SpaceX’s path to launching its massive Starship rocket from Florida's Space Coast passed another hurdle Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration released results of its nearly two-year long environmental review ...Read more
No end in sight next week for freezing temperatures in NYC
NEW YORK — The weekend may be just around the corner, but there’s no warm weather in sight.
Temperatures plunged to single digits overnight, forcing New Yorkers to grapple with a brutal frigidity for the commute ...Read more
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