Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the ...

The mechanism involves atmospheric waves that bounce between the upper atmosphere and ground level, amplifying weather patterns and making them more extreme. Scientists call this “stratospheric wave ...

The polar bears at the Buffalo Zoo are kept comfortable in the hottest months of the year with climate controlled habitats and always-cool swimming pools.

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

The image of a polar bear adrift on a melting mini iceberg in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” probably did ...

County Commissioners there had challenged the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the 88-mile rail line, proposed by ...

Imagine stepping outside on a chilly morning and thinking, “Where’s that global warming everyone keeps talking about?” You ...

Black bears are skilled anglers, moving with surprising stealth and grace before striking at an unsuspecting fish.

One of the US Senate's leading climate advocates says President Donald Trump's administration no longer governs -- it ...

Insurers across the U.S. are increasingly refusing to cover homes in climate risk zones, leaving millions without insurance ...

On May 23, the Trump administration released an Executive Order titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” a thinly veiled attempt to suppress legitimate science with a title too ironic to be ...

Author Ben Weissenbach explores and documents Alaska’s shifting biology and brings characters to life in “North to the Future ...