Scientists are raising alarms over the planet's warming oceans, which — coupled with a strong El Niño — could increase ...

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

The bush has been growing here since the observatory’s founding in 1885, if not longer. For 141 years, without missing a ...

NOAA data show the Pacific's Nino 3.4 region is significantly warmer than last year, strengthening El Nino concerns that could affect India's monsoon rainfall.

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

Pupils from a Shropshire primary school gathered to launch their very own weather balloon. Excitement was in the air at ...

Bill Frist, a surgeon who also served as Senate majority leader, has emerged as an outspoken advocate for environmental ...

Why is Mumbai experiencing relentless rain? Scientists explain how moisture-laden Arabian Sea winds, the Western Ghats and an ...

In recent days, the torrential rain has inundated roads, disrupted train services, delayed flights, uprooted trees and ...

A trio of satellites set to launch early Tuesday will give wildland firefighters more time to respond and scientists more ...