A jet stream splits the US, bringing winter to one half (40 inches of snow in Montana) and record-breaking heat (98°F in Washington, DC) to the other—a phenomenon that climate change may be making more common.
Trump talked about fortifying the border wall with a trench filled with water and stocked with snakes or alligators so frequently that his aides sought out a cost estimate for implementing it.
Dolphins are swimming, romancing, making babies in the Potomac.
Banks are shielding themselves from climate risk by shifting mortgages in flood zones over to the federal government.
Geologists find a lost continent buried under southern Europe.
A tree so old that its rings contain a record of a reversal of Earth's magnetic field is discovered in New Zealand.
Groundwater pumping is causing rivers and streams around the world to drop dramatically. | 
