Thursday marked the last day of the darkest 12 weeks of the year in southern Colorado. Day length is now increasing by more than 2 minutes per day and the maximum solar angle is also rising rapidly.

A frozen Lake Erie blocks the food source for many animals, including endangered species like the Little Gull.

A year ago, federal support for scientific research appeared to be crumbling. But thanks to Congress and several lawsuits, ...

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In recent years, science has quietly shaped how people communicate, receive medical care, predict the weather, and protect digital information. At the heart of many of these advances is quantum ...

Wind comes from differences in atmospheric pressure. The greater the change in atmospheric pressure, the greater the wind. So ...

Bliss, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, typically gets up at 6 a.m. to make the drive to rural Lake County, where she’s ...

Florida’s rare cold snaps can leave iguanas frozen and falling from trees. Here’s the science behind the phenomenon and what ...

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

A map created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center shows that ...

A MERICAN SCIENTISTS have historically been leaders in the collection and analysis of data on climate change. The ...

Winter Storm Fern, which brought 14 inches of snow to Cornell's campus, was driven by Arctic air interacting with a low-pressure system and raises questions about the impact of climate change on ...