It’s springtime in New England—an important season for maple syrup production.

The maple syrup season is short, only lasting between four and six weeks. The flavor of syrup can change depending on when it is gathered during that time.¹ The syrup is gathered by attaching buckets to trees with spouts sticking into the trees’ bark.

An overview of the Milankovitch (or astronomical) ice age theory appears in the May 2020 issue of Physics Today.¹ This theory (hypothesis, really) holds that Earth’s rotational and orbital motions influence Earth’s climate over long ages, pacing the timing of ice ages.

One lone elm tree survived a deadly “elm disease.”

On the morning of May 19, 2020, the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, declared a state of emergency for Midland County after two dams broke from heavy rain that poured across the state.¹

A new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters has determined that Puhahonu volcano is the world’s largest by volume and the hottest.¹ Found almost 700 miles northwest of Hawai’i, Puhahonu volcano is almost completely submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.² Only two small, rocky remnants stick up to about 170 feet above the surface, exposing only six a