The folks at the National Weather Service in Alaska were nervous. They were kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. Their instruments, data and computer forecast showed that a heat advisory ...

Climate scientists warned of worsening floods, and local officials knew the risk but decided $1 million was too high a price.

Pollution and climate change are fueling a megadrought in the Southwest U.S., threatening water supplies and reshaping the ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Central Texas is infamous for its flash flooding and arid soil, hard-packed ground into which water does not easily ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ July 11 The Washington Post says the costs of Trump's tariffs have become more clear To many Americans, President Donald Trump’s ...

The eternal truth is that natural gas is green indeed, and hugely beneficial economically. We should never forget that the fracking/horizontal drilling revolution was the result of capitalism and ...

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...

The National Weather Service says flood fatalities have gone up. There were 145 last year, compared to the 25-year average of ...

Flash floods are responsible for 85% of flood-related fatalities worldwide, killing over 5,000 people each year, according to ...

Though the county did not get the most rain from the storms, the “distribution of rainfall was one of the worst possible patterns” because the most intense downpours were over the headwaters of the ...