Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land.

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Atmospheric rivers generally form in tropical regions, where warm temperatures can cause water vapor to rise into the ...

Sea levels along the United States coast are rising faster than they did in the past, and the change is not subtle.

The winter season officially began astronomically in the Northern Hemisphere in the last third of December, specifically on ...

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Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

The Stockton region is bracing for a series of rain and wind events over the next several days as back-to-back atmospheric ...

Parts of California are bracing for a series of rain and wind events over the next week as back-to-back atmospheric rivers ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

As we enter the twelve days before Christmas, early indications within weather models suggest that much of the United States ...