Scientists are raising alarms over the planet's warming oceans, which — coupled with a strong El Niño — could increase ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

A Volusia County lifeguard was indirectly struck by lightning on July 4 but was OK, an official said. The lifeguard, Damien Curry, was standing next to his pickup truck about 1:30 p.m. near the ...

Scientists are certain that climate change has already made warm spells like the June heatwave significantly hotter than the ...

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans have warmed in response to rising greenhouse gases, waters circling ...

Temperatures are skyrocketing for the third straight day across the Eastern US, but there’s at least three different ways to ...

Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil ...

The intensity of the heat and humidity combined this week would have been “virtually impossible” without the effects of fossil fuel pollution, according to a study.

The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so, I retain a few fuzzy memories from ...

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

A U.S. company has launched the first system to test hypersonic vehicle materials against real weather before flight at ...

Researchers have proposed an unorthodox way to shield our planet from the constant barrage of solar storms — launching a ...