Svalbard Global Seed Vault is one of the view things standing between a future for our world and the apocalypse. Picture a little island halfway between Northern Norway and the North Pole.
It would not surprise anyone around the Carolinas to hear or even say it's been a weird winter. It's not just here, though! You've likely heard about the Oroville Dam in California.
... throughout - Nova Scotia saw it all in 2016. "It's not your grandparent's weather anymore. It's a new weather and weird, wild and wacky," Environment Canada's David Phillips told the Chronicle Herald earlier in the year. It appears he was right. ...
With the rainy season off to a strong start, California officials on Wednesday more than doubled the amount of water they expect to provide next year from the State Water Project. Officials had been proceeding with caution after five years of drought, projecting last month that the state's massive network of reservoirs, pumps and pipelines would distribute only 20 percent of the requested water.