NEW ORLEANS — The oceanic conditions that churn up the very strongest of hurricanes and typhoons are heating up in the North Atlantic and Western Pacific, fueled by warm water that extends well below ...

After two unusually large permafrost collapses in Canada’s Northwest Territories in 2017 and 2018 that left scars up to 2 ...

WASHINGTON — Summer storms are generally more frequent, intense and concentrated over cities than over rural areas, according to new, detailed observations of eight cities and their surroundings. The ...

WASHINGTON — Normally, America’s smokiest cities lie out west. But Canada’s unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities in smoke farther east than is usual, according to new ...

A new study projects that intense rainfall events lasting less than an hour in tropical cities will hit two to three times more often and deliver up to 17% more water by 2100 under 4.5 degrees Celsius ...

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WASHINGTON — Earth’s oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition of bodies in the solar system as well as help to interpret ...

WASHINGTON — Across its basins and thousands of meters down, the Mediterranean Sea is getting warmer and saltier. Now, a new study finds it is also doing so at a faster and faster pace. The speed-up ...

WASHINGTON — The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but ...

Up to now, most analyses of global warming have indicated a fairly steady rise in the average global temperature of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade since the 1970s. Recently, however, scientists ...

WASHINGTON— The Congo basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest, whose 500 million acres have been slowly drying out for the last four decades. To figure out why the dry season is getting ...

WASHINGTON—Climate change will drive an increase in summer air conditioning use in the United States likely to cause prolonged blackouts during peak summer heat if states do not expand capacity or ...