El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes ...

A new financing program will help protect communities from future floods and wildfires, but it won't help municipalities ...

Officials in California distributed sandbags, prepositioned rescue swimmers and told residents to have their go-bags ready as ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

So far only a dozen of the 195 nations that signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement have filed their national plans for cutting emissions by 2035. Those nations account for only 1 ...

The earlier 2018 study was called “ARkStorm,” nodding to Noah’s biblical flood and atmospheric rivers generally. The report ...

There are just a few shellfish growing operations in South Carolina. But this growing industry might be a critical part of SC ...

“For the second time in six years, Townsville has been hit by a ‘once-in-a-century’ flood, sending a surge of sediment, nutrients and pollutants toward the Great Barrier Reef,” marine biologist Jodie ...

Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...