It’s only the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but Earth is already roasting.

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models.

As more attention is drawn to possible severe weather around the world scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are looking to improve planning for possible droughts, floods and other scenarios. 

There’s a strong chance that last week’s scorching temperatures were even hotter than reported for those living in underserved urban areas.

During recent periods of unusually warm water in the Gulf of Alaska, young Pacific cod in near shore safe havens where they typically spend their adolescence did not experience the protective effects those areas typically provide, a new Oregon State University study found.

Across the Midwest during the warmer months, studying the sky for signs of storms and tornadoes becomes one of the most popular pastimes.

Over a foot of rain fell on parts of South Dakota and Iowa in late June 2024, sending water over the banks of rivers.

More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.

Warm water that seeps underneath can melt ice in way not yet included in models.

Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.