Faced with extreme drought, these flowers adapted. Scientists call it “evolutionary rescue," and say it's a hopeful sign for ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Environmental journalist and author Laura Paskus considers the implications of climate change, and the need for a moral reckoning.

Because of this challenge, the Federal Judicial Center, a group within the judicial branch of the government, has ...

The Earth is actually coming out of an ice age, so it's relatively cold in the grand scheme of Earth's history. But the issue ...

A case in the US Supreme Court, which will weigh the role of fossil fuel giants in the climate crisis, reflects a longtime push by the industry to stop science being heard in state courts A US Supreme ...

We are living climate change now, and paying for what was forecast by NOAA decades ago. Instead of dismantling it, we should ...

A series of tragic deaths in Canada, the U.S. and Europe is showing how tricky avalanches still are to predict. Will that ...

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric ...

Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private ...