The findings, published on Feb. 7 in Scientific Reports, suggest that mollusks in the region may adapt yet again to the climate change of today.

Human activity contaminated glacier long before people arrived, study shows.

Iceland is one of the few places where people can explore the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on dry land.

The evolving field of climate change attribution science plays a critical role in shaping our understanding of how humans are affecting the global climate system, and in informing discussions about responsibility for climate change impacts.

Research suggests ancient volcanic eruptions may not have been the only cause of past mass extinctions.

Plants that break some of the ‘rules’ of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have a higher chance of surviving climate change, according to researchers from the University of Queensland and Trinity College Dublin.

What we know today as NOAA’s National Weather Service was founded 150 years ago on February 9, 1870 — that's 15 decades of science and service to the country.

The United States saw 14 billion-dollar disasters in 2019. These included eight severe storm events, three flooding events, two tropical cyclones, and one wildfire event in multiple locations.

When tides, currents, and gravity move water masses over seafloor features, they can create wave actions within the ocean.

Following an exceptionally wet January, an atmospheric river carried even more moisture into the region in February.