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.

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

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like ...

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 ...

Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they ...

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

To many Americans, President Donald Trump’s tariffs might seem costless. This was the week that the tariff illusion began to evaporate, with new data suggesting that American businesses are starting ...

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