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Andrea Romero, Chief Meteorologist at WNJU, Telemundo New York, talked with Earth Gauge about her role as Station Scientist. Here’s what she had to say about covering science and environmental issues in her weathercast.

The Deepwater Horizon Spill
Since the April 20th explosion on Deepwater Horizon off-shore exploration well, thousands of gallons of crude oil have been leaking from the seafloor each day. A combination of floating barriers, chemical dispersants and controlled burns are being used to mitigate and control the spill. The spill continues to threaten Gulf of [...]

Thanks to lower fuel prices and expectations for a slightly milder winter, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that households in the U.S. will spend less on heating fuel this winter compared to last year. In the South, where over 59 percent of households use electricity for heating, EIA projects that households will spend about [...]

Over the past four decades, there has been a planet-wide lengthening of the “green” period between leaf emergence in the spring and leaf drop in the fall, which is now about 15 days longer than it was in 1970. This lengthening has been linked to the planet’s warming trend. Just as changes in climate can [...]

Seabirds, such as auks, gulls, petrels, terns, and gannets, have spent tens of millions of years adapting to life on the ocean. Some species, such as the Sooty Tern, can spend years at sea before returning to land. The success of these species is dependent on the success of their food sources (such as fish [...]

During the warm seasons (spring through fall), the water in the Baltic Sea is stable and stratified. This means that the warmest and least dense water is on the surface, and as you dive deeper and deeper, layers of progressively colder, saltier, and denser water are encountered. During the decades of the 1970’s and 1980’s, [...]

Polar bears, Earth’s largest land predator, are most common on annual sea ice that sits over shallow seas. This ice provides the bears with a platform from which they can hunt for food. In Canada’s western Hudson Bay region, which is at the southernmost extent of the polar bear’s range, winter and spring are the [...]

The world’s largest and oldest lake, Russia’s Lake Baikal, provides habitat for over 2,500 species, most of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Baikal has changed rapidly over the last 60 years. These changes include a two degree Fahrenheit rise in the temperature of the water, a corresponding 300 percent increase in chlorophyll concentration in [...]

The first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska on April 10, 1872, whenJ. Sterling Morton, an agriculturalist, civic leader, and former newspaper editor, urged Nebraska residentsto “set aside one day to plant trees, both forest and fruit.” Arbor Day was so popular that more than 45 states and U.S. territories were celebrating by 1920, and [...]

The U.S. Census 2006 American Community Survey showed that30 percent of total housing units inOhio and 25 percent in West Virginiawere renter-occupied. Homeowners have the freedom to make changes at home that help increase energy efficiency during the heating season, but it can be more difficult for renters to find ways to save energy without [...]