University of Tokyo graduate student Yuuki Wada with colleagues from Japan discover a connection between lightning strikes and two kinds of gamma-ray phenomena in thunderclouds.

Global energy use could increase by as much as 58 percent by 2050 as communities and industries use more air conditioning to cope with rising global temperatures, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.

Nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no spendthrift. Unfortunately, he was wrong.

A remote and unoccupied research station in Antarctica has, for the first time, collected important scientific measurements of climate, ozone and space weather thanks to ground-breaking technology developed by British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) engineers.

Understanding how the weather and climate change is one of the most important challenges in science today.

Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, the people of Peru’s coastal region rely on surface water from the Andes for drinking water, industry, and animal and crop farming.

For decades, scientists studying a key climate phenomenon have been grappling with contradictory data that have threated to undermine confidence in the reliability of climate models overall.

New research led by climate scientists from the University of Bristol suggests that the representation of clouds in climate models is as, or more, important than the amount of greenhouse gas emissions when it comes to projecting future Greenland ice sheet melt.

There’s growing momentum to factor climate change into humanitarian work, Anita Makri reports.

Auburn University researchers have published a new hypothesis that could provide the foundation for new scientific studies looking into the association of habitat loss and the global emergence of infectious diseases.