Winds Whip Up Fires and Dust on the Southern Plains

Winds Whip Up Fires and Dust on the Southern Plains

• 3 min read Winds Whip Up Fires and Dust on the Southern Plains Dry, gusty conditions spurred fast-growing fires in Oklahoma and Kansas, along with dangerous dust storms across th

Space & Aerospace · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 355 words

Identifying priority Southern Ocean conservation hotspots

• New research shows that maintaining and adopting proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean could almost double the protection of genetic hotspots from 28% to a

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 120 words