An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska's North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they were at any point over the past 3,000 years.

A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina’s Patagonia region, making the extremely ...

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The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the ...

Eucalyptus trees, laden with flammable oils, could spread into Portugal's south-central region by 2060 if changing climate ...

Declining snowpack can affect everything from municipal water systems and agriculture to lake levels, shipping and wildfire ...

Major snowpack deficits could set the stage for widespread water scarcity and heightened wildfire risk across the American ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may finally help scientists understand a mysterious substance that binds the universe together. Taken by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, the latest ...

A public listening session is planned in Yakima on Thursday about wildfire hazard mapping and ratings. The meeting, hosted by the state Department of Natural Resources, is intended to share ...