Scientists say recent extreme snowstorms are consistent with weather patterns shifting due to climate change. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can lead to more intense precipitation, ...

Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.

An aerial image shows a part of Turkana South Island in Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, in northern Kenya. An aerial image shows a part of Turkana South Island in Lake Turkana, the ...

A new research project, Plant Futures, envisions how a flower might respond to climate change over time. Flowers play a key role in most landscapes, from urban to rural areas. There might be ...

In 2025, carbon pollution made 89% of record high daily temperatures set across 247 major U.S. cities more likely — and influenced risky extreme heat events around the globe. Hurricane Melissa, the ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

As a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science in the mid-2000s, Karthick Balasubramanian monitored the water quality of major South Indian rivers. As part of this work, he would travel to ...