A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, and that’s why last weekend’s winter storm dumped more snow, sleet and freezing rain than similar weather systems might have in the past ...

Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies and the rise of autocracy over the past year prompted scientists to set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock was moved closer to midnight than ever before this month as scientists outlined four key threats ...

Landslides closed Highway 1 for three years. No one expects this will be the end of its battle with the forces of nature.

A new study of climate extremes since 1988 finds that many regions have seen increases in deaths due to floods, storms and ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

President Trump cited a major winter storm​ as evidence to suggest that global warming does not exist — a misleading claim ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks' teeth and found that future generations of sharks could have weaker teeth.

By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter in a codependent and often ...

As the planet edges towards 1.5°C of global warming, a new study led by the Natural History Museum, London has revealed that scientists still have only a limited understanding of how climate change is ...