This year, the USGS is proud to celebrate 100 years of continuous volcano monitoring in the United States. Monitoring began in 1912, when Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded...
Jonas Kron is worried about water. The investment adviser at Trillium Asset Management, a $900 million fund manager that focuses on environmentally sustainable investment, fears the world’s dwindling supply of fresh water is hurting...
This year’s mild winter makes the snow-a-thons of recent years seem a quaint memory. It’s hard to believe that just two winters ago, 70 inches of snow fell on Washington, D.C., forcing the government...
(Reuters) – A possible mid-winter tornado has struck a small western North Carolina community, injuring 10 people, two seriously, authorities said on Thursday. The violent storm hit Ellenboro, in Rutherford County, about 5:45 p.m....
Extreme winter weather has left one Alaskan town battling huge snowdrifts and forced another to seek fuel supplies from a Russian tanker. National Guard troops are in Cordova, helping the town dig out after...
Dry weather that’s hurting soybean and corn crops in Argentina may cause more damage than the 2008-2009 drought that was the worst in 70 years, a farming group said today, disputing a government statement....
The National Weather Service has officially declared last year as the driest on record in Texas and the second hottest. Meteorologists predict the situation won’t improve much this year. That means water restrictions will...
(multimedia) A group of killer whales have been spotted much further south along the California coast than ever before. Lee Cowan reports on what maybe causing the rare sightings.
Snowpack across the western United States right now is paltry when compared to this time last year. Below is an image showing the expansive and deep snow cover (white, blue, purple shadings) across the...
PASADENA, Calif. – A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on...
