When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif.—In the days before Christmas in Southern California, like many places around the world, holiday music populated the airwaves and shopping malls, including carols of the three kings ...

The first anniversary of the war in Ukraine has passed, and its effects on the people and the environment will last for generations to come. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced, ...

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

Earth’s water cycle, as we have known it, is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human activities, threatening long-term water security. Last week, the World Meteorological ...

The vessel, which had the tallest mast of any yacht in the world, sank rapidly. Fifteen people survived. Italian officials believe that the sudden storm caused a waterspout to form in the exact spot ...

Last week, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) began a ten-day meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, to negotiate draft regulations about the exploitation of mineral resources from the bottom of the ...

Lakewood, Colorado—Looking for your next read? How about a mystery that delves into a past that perhaps no one has ever heard before. There’s a library that holds those stories—stories of how our ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.

Some scientists say the cold weather can be linked to climate change, although there is no consensus. However, there is consensus that freezing temperatures don’t contradict the fact that global ...

In just 24 hours, the area, which is generally very dry, received more rain than what typically falls in a year, from Storm Daniel in the Mediterranean, similar to a hurricane and called a “medicane.” ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...