In a new find under five historic homes in the Iranian city of Abarkuh, archaeologists discovered an underground settlement ...

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...

Highs are topping out in the upper 30s to mid 40s today, but it may feel cooler due to some breezy winds. Many of us woke up to a light dusting of snow but we've mainly been dealing with on and off ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

A desert wind can create other hazards as well ... “You can’t really control what the weather is going to do, so you kind of just accept it and try and use it to the best of your ability.” ...

Desert Southwest and earth reached its warmest temperature ever. Experts say climate change is the reason for the rising ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

The rain and snow will be present each of the next several days as waves of precipitation move through Oregon. The mountains ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...