Experts attribute the massive wildfire in northern California, as well as numerous smaller fires across the western U.S. and Canada, to a combination of past fire-suppression practices and climate change. The historical approach of quickly extinguishing fires has contributed to the accumulation of flammable vegetation, which, combined with the effects of climate change, has set
It might sound unbelievable, but scientists have unearthed a 385-million-year-old root network that’s causing quite a stir. Imagine a fossilized web of roots from ancient times—it’s got everyone buzzing. They’re rethinking what the first forests might have looked like, and it’s definitely not what you’d picture. Under an old highway quarry near Cairo, New York,