Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals.

China’s push to be a weather superpower has seen authorities accelerate efforts to end reliance on a European dataset, ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky.

Investors and project developers are becoming concerned about wind and solar power as climate change fuels increasingly ...

Christmas Day will be quite warm across the U.S. only days after the winter solstice. Here is an explanation of why winter ...

In recent years, the global climate has become increasingly extreme, with intensifying alternations of droughts and floods—particularly in ecologically vulnerable mid-latitude regions. But what is ...

In 1978, Fujita and NCAR scientists were the first to capture microbursts on radar, confirming Fujita’s theory about their existence. However, the aviation world denied the existence of microbursts ...

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of ...