What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province?
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works — and what it can tell us about the monster storms...
Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Stronger, Researchers Find
Hurricanes have become stronger worldwide during the past four decades, an analysis of observational data shows, supporting what theory and computer models have long suggested:...
Life-threatening extreme heat set to trap millions indoors by 2060
These punishing conditions have lasted only one to two hours but climate change is likely to prolong them to about six hours at a time...
A nation divided: Polar vortex to unload historic Arctic blast in the East as blistering heat roasts the West
A contorted jet stream — with a massive bulge of high pressure in the West and a downstream dip, or trough, in the East that...
Climate Change Is Accelerating, Bringing World ‘Dangerously Close’ to Irreversible Change
More devastating fires in California. Persistent drought in the Southwest. Record flooding in Europe and Africa. A heat wave, of all things, in Greenland. Climate...
Climate change and the new language of weather
The United States was tied up in winter weather over the Thanksgiving weekend, from torrential rain in the West to ice and snow in the...
A Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Far Beyond the Floodplains
A Utah renewable energy developer was hit by a first-of-its-kind cyberattack that briefly cut contact to a dozen wind and solar farms this spring, according...
Climate Whiplash: Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise
As the world warms, scientists say that abrupt shifts in weather patterns — droughts followed by severe floods, or sudden and unseasonable fluctuations in temperature...