Updated: 5:38 PM Many of us sports fans cringe when a player takes a heavy hit. Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota have gone high-tech to prevent concussions.

Updated: 5:36 PM The recent increases in gas prices is making many of us think about purchasing a car that is more fuel efficient.

Updated: 5:40 PM A popular electronics device that is user-friendly may not be environmentally-friendly.

Posted: 5:38 PM Drought and large rainfall deficits continue in the Southeastern United States

Posted: 5:20 PM Good air quality is important to all of us, but is especially critical to those who have respiratory diseases.

Updated: 5:15 PM A cancer researcher may have found a new way to create fuel, and the discovery was purely by accident.

Updated: 5:16 PM Warm and dry conditions are most likely to continue over the area.

Updated: 5:56 PM You may have heard the saying, "What goes up must come down." That certainly holds true when you think of a waterfall.

Posted: 5:19 PM The fifteenth depression of the 2007 season formed late Thursday afternoon.

Posted: 3:34 PM But forecasters downgrade the total number of hurricanes expected for the season.

Updated: 6:28 PM NASA scientists had a front row seat to something they've never seen before.

Updated: 6:34 PM This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol that was designed to rehabilitate the large hole in the ozone layer.

Posted: 3:12 PM For the first time in human memory, the Northwest Passage in Canada is completely open due to melting arctic sea ice.

Posted: 3:08 PM A new way of issuing hazardous weather warnings starts this month.

Posted: 8:12 PM The Pinpoint Weather Team is starting a new feature called the "Pinpoint Video Weather Blog"

Updated: 12:30 PM The Twelfth depression of the season has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Karen.

Updated: 11:39 PM The National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Jerry has become a Tropical Storm in the open Atlantic.

Updated: 7:25 AM Tropical Storm Warnings have been discontinued.

Updated: 5:24 PM The drought and rainfall deficits that have plagued our area for almost two years are expected to continue for several more months according to researchers at Florida State University. That has officials concerned about a renewed wildfire threat and local nurseries praying for rain.

Updated: 11:18 AM It's official, August was a month for the books in Tallahassee. It was the hottest August ever and the third hottest month on record.

Updated: 4:33 PM The manufacturer of a potentially lifesaving alert system is recalling several of its products.

Updated: 9:13 PM Watches and warnings are in effect for parts of the Caribbean.

Posted: 6:26 PM Storms set off more than 20 alarms in three hours.

Updated: 4:59 PM Hurricane Dean's lashing winds, torrents of rain and storm surge reached the southern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the northern coast of Belize early this morning.

Updated: 10:57 AM Hurricane Dean's eye has slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.