Another round of snowy, chilly weather is gripping the United States this week, extending the frigid start to the year across ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes.

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

Brainwave Synchronization – The gravitational influence of Jupiter, the Sun’s solar cycle, and the Earth’s magnetic field ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, increase global temperatures. Rising temperatures, in turn, cause moisture to evaporate at a faster rate. This ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth’s mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...