Eric Niiler
Science and Climate Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Science/climate reporter at The Wall Street Journal @WSJ.
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6 days ago |
wsj.com | Eric Niiler
Forecasters warn that dangerously hot and humid weather will blanket nearly 200 million people this weekend and next week as a phenomenon known as a heat dome traps the sweltering air. “There will be three, four, maybe five days in a row of a persistent heat dome with hot, humid, sunny conditions over a good portion of the Eastern U.S.,” said Bryan Jackson, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md.Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Eric Niiler
The new images by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft are among several recent observations of the sun’s atmosphere and surface that are helping to improve predictions of how and when space weather will affect Earth, according to Daniel Müller, a solar physicist at the ESA. Most of us experience the sun as an unwavering source of heat and light.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Eric Niiler
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Wednesday weakening air-pollution standards for mercury and eliminating carbon dioxide rules on power plants, reversing Biden-era policies as part of an overall effort to curtail the agency’s role in regulating climate change. The easing of the environmental regulations is in line with executive orders issued by President Trump in April to expand coal mining, leasing and exports, and push for greater use of coal-fired power generation.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Eric Niiler
Now as a professor of atmospheric science at Northern Illinois University, he is a leader of the largest hail study in U.S. history and the first in 40 years. One goal: to better understand why hailstones can get so big.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Eric Niiler
One thing AI can’t do? Read your body language. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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