(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

While most people were trying to stay out of the rain on Thursday, a group of researchers was out in the thick of it ...

But now, a team led by Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in Ulsan, South Korea, has shattered this paradigm, ...

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

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...

Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

Grist dives into Florida's ironic water scarcity problem, borne from climate change, a development boom, and the ...

Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.