The wettest 12 months in recorded U.S. history have exacted a price — millions of acres of waterlogged fields remain unplanted during the worst farm crisis since the '80s.
Why it matters: Agriculture is used to boom-bust cycles. What's less common is the bust coinciding with historic trade wars.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected a large burst of methane gas on Mars, possibly indicating microbes are at work on the red planet, reports the New York Times.
Why it matters: If this methane is actually being belched out by microbes on Mars, it would be a paradigm shifting discovery, showing that life exists elsewhere in the universe. But we have a long way to go before assuming the reading from Curiosity means proof of life on Mars.
Parts of Colorado have received as much as 2 feet of snow, just 1 day after the summer solstice, reports CBS4 Denver.
Details: Snow is falling at higher elevations in the state, and in some parts of Montana. The flurries began on Friday evening, and the National Weather Service expects the storm to continue through Sunday, issuing Winter Weather Advisories.
