While the weather across the Lone Star State has been hot, humid and relatively quiet lately, the pattern could change significantly in the months ahead because of a strengthening El Niño. Thursday’s ...

U.S. citizens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are spending hours waiting for water trucks after water rationing went into effect amid drought on the island archipelago. Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González ...

UW researchers Ellen Currano, Regan Dunn and Kymbre Skersies excavate plant fossils in the Hanna Basin in 2015. Their work is a big part of a new scientific paper -- published today in the journal ...

Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies ...

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If you want to know how rapidly pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will affect future forest ecosystems, you have to look into the distant past. The researchers behind a new study published in ...

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The EPA's National Environmental Youth Advisory Council appears to have lapsed. California is now taking applications for its own council at the state level.

There is a nearly 70% chance that the building Super El Niño will be the strongest such event on record, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast released Thursday.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has revamped and updated its warning system for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to allow for more precise warnings about severe weather across the ...