Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in ...

Scientists have identified fossils of snow leopards. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose how it dispersed from ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a ...

"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the ...

As of January 13, close to 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. The population is in nothing less than panic.

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Not only was it the hottest year in recorded human history, for the first time Earth’s average global temperature reached ...

Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...

An international team of scientists say they've successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between Daily Yonder and Climate Central. Climate Central scientists Jennifer Brady and Joseph Giguere ...

Weakened by a prolonged drought, which scientists link to climate change, California’s ubiquitous pines and oaks are vulnerable to ... This phenomenon doesn’t just erase an aspect of California’s ...