Elmer Brown was following two friends on his four-wheeler last November, hunting caribou across a frozen channel in northern Alaska when the ice gave way. All three plunged into the frigid water. One ...

While March is normally a volatile month for weather across the U.S., this month seems to be especially off the rails, weather-wise.

Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states in recent years. To understand why, look to Peru. That's where researchers ...

Global temperatures and rain patterns are affected by a climate phenomenon known as El Niño/La Niña.

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature ...

Snow, tornadoes, record-breaking heat, a dust storm — and that’s just last weekend. Here’s how to understand what’s going on, ...

Severe storms threaten North Carolina, as research shows atmospheric conditions fueling tornadoes and thunderstorms are becoming more common across the Southeast.

Chaotic weather, from surprising heat in California to the threat of storms rolling into the East Coast, put over half the ...

Meteorologists say the United States is getting hit by almost every kind of extreme weather at once, as spring air masses collide and the jet stream twists.

From blizzard conditions in the Midwest to a heat wave in the western U.S. to flooding in Hawaii, March has brought wild weather to the country ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

In 1953, American writer Ray Bradbury published a book entitled simply ‘Fahrenheit 451′. It was a novel about an American fireman in a not-too-distant future who realized that he was doing his job all ...