Walking through the woods near her home in Marlborough, Connecticut, Matylda Biskupski couldn’t help but notice that the forest seemed bare. “There’s very little shade. It’s very weird,” said Biskupski, a freshman at Rham High School. Throughout the summer, gypsy moth caterpillars munched on the forest’s green canopy, leaving trees[…]
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High rivers and hot weather hit the West: take photos for Field Photo Weekend!
Fishermen are great observers, and the ones who taught me most about that were my brother and my dad. Nowadays, my dad’s moving more slowly, and my brother, Michael Peterson, is a Cincinnati-based poet, but each June they make a pilgrimage back to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Last week they[…]
Changing with the climate: How are farmers from the Plains to the Midwest adapting?
In the Midwest, you know spring has arrived when tractors start to hold up traffic on the highway. But before the tractors, the ISeeChange community saw signs of early spring across the Plains and the Midwest: Butterflies fluttered through apricot blossoms in Nebraska on the first day of spring, Jessica[…]
Georgia Island Confronts “Blue Sky” Floods. What are the Costs of Rising Seas?
On Sapelo Island, just off the coast of Georgia, change is everywhere: Saltwater marshes swell past their banks on sunny, cloudless days. Historic forests full of Spanish moss and centuries-old magnolia trees are dying. Mosquitoes coat white buildings in a vibrating black film. And one day the road washed out,[…]
Can Yo-Yo Winters Make Us More Sick?
Students in Hebron, Connecticut have been noticing something strange this winter. Usually this town 25 miles southeast of Hartford is snowy and cold, but this year, temperatures swung wildly from freezing to balmy. Those temperature swings make for what we call a “YoYo” winter. “It snowed on Tuesday and today[…]
What’s happening to winter in the southern Arizona desert?
Betsy Wilkening’s daughter was looking forward to Tucson’s sunny weather when she came home for the holidays from the UK, where she’s studying at Cambridge. She got some sun — but also a generous drenching. Betsy joked that she’d brought the wet weather with her. Between December 17 and the[…]
The story of the Great Lakes: It’s Ice!
Daytime high temperatures are in the single digits in Minnesota right now. It’s the kind of weather “the Land of a Thousand Lakes” is famous for, but a couple of weeks back they were in the balmy mid-thirties. Driving from Cloquet to Duluth, ISeeChange observer Hailey Raushel called that “relaxed.”[…]
Sneaky Drought: Northeast, Southeast prove it’s not just a Western thing anymore
Teachers don’t often get to have fall gardens. But since retiring from Three Rivers Community College, Connecticut resident Judy Donnelly is outside rather than in the classroom when school starts in September. “I’ve had more time to walk around and notice what’s going on,” she says. And this year, what’s[…]
Sudden storms in South Australia
The southeast United States is not the only place dealing with flooding and extreme weather. Back at the end of September, iSeeChange user Sarah Horley posted a photo of a road made impassable by brown floodwater. Unusually heavy rains and associated flooding in a low rainfall area — Sarah Horley[…]
Have you seen your favorite summer bugs?
All observations are, to some extent, limited. There’s always some subjective gap between what we’ve seen and the fullest truth. The sight of the boy you liked in high school walking away with another girl has probably lingered in your heart longer than his feelings for her. Emotion, especially, can[…]
Trees get stressed out too (but for different reasons)
Sure seems like you’re seeing a lot of stressed-out trees, out there in these United States. Unlike with people, it’s probably not because of the impending election. In the Midwest, observers in Wisconsin and Michigan noticed leaves turning brown deep in what we usually consider summer. Valerie Mann, in Bristol,[…]
Is summer over? (Take a picture to tell us!)
At the Thomas Starr King Middle School across the street from me (Go Lions!), students return to classes before Labor Day. They’re among a growing number of kids who mourn summer’s death in August…unlike in Virginia, where the King’s Dominion law protects the rights of teenagers to ride roller coasters[…]
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