Japan is an archipelago with diverse climate zones and complex topography that is prone to heavy rain and flooding. Add the ...

Reno, Nevada: America's Fastest Warming City Faces a Silent Crisis 6 degrees. Heat mapping data show differences of more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit between the hottest and coolest parts of the city on ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.

At 64, Mwanaharusi Morowa never imagined she would watch the river that raised her, fed her children and buried her ancestors, turn against her. For decades, River Tana had been the spine of her life ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The world’s climate leaders are conceding that Earth’s warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they’re ...

There are invisible rivers streaming across the sky — massive plumes of moisture borne over the oceans and wafted across the continents. When this moisture is released back down to Earth, it can ...

Fears of climate change are decreasing in the United States, China and many Western countries relative to other concerns, according to a new survey. War, economic hardship and disease were more ...

A form of harmful air pollution that often can't be plainly observed is now being tracked with a groundbreaking new tool developed by scientists that allows residents to see where it's coming from.

Sixty-six million years ago, North America saw long, dark winters. Fossils now suggest tiny primates were already there, coping with ice and snow. A new analysis turns the usual tropical origin story ...