For the past several weeks, much of the world has experienced a new normal: one with fewer cars on the road and more time spent at home.

As pollution levels drop worldwide amid stay-at-home orders, researchers consider what this might mean for the future.

The decline in gasoline has implications for both local air quality and climate change.

Scripps Oceanography climate scientists ponder what episode tells us about global warming.

Thanks to a wet summer, water levels rose in this ephemeral lake in Western Australia.

Powerful thunderstorms moving through eastern Texas and western Louisiana spawned several tornadoes, including some that caused major damage.

The average picker now experiences 21 days each year when the daily heat index — a mix of air temperature and humidity — would exceed workplace safety standards.

A new study led by Loughborough University has revealed that lake burial of organic carbon has increased three-fold over the last 100 years in response to human disruption of global nutrient cycles.

On the evening of 5 August 2013, a startling event occurred deep in the remote interior of the United States’ largest national park. 

A combination of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability can explain an anomaly in ocean temperatures that has puzzled scientists in recent years, according to new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led research.