The winds fanning the catastrophic Northern California fires are borne out of a complicated mash-up of meteorology, physics, geography, and topography.
The 2017 solstice falls on June 20 or June 21 depending on where you are ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.
Cloud-lovers rejoice: the new, updated and digitized version of the Cloud Atlas is now available, and why this is important for understanding global climate change.