The Greenland ice sheet is melting quicker than anyone previously thought. A new estimate lowers the amount of heat necessary, and thus the time needed, to melt the Greenland ice sheet, ...

Could the Death Valley crater explode again in the near future? California's Ubehebe Crater, which is a mile and a half wide, came to be several thousand years ago, scientists first ...

SimCity, the iconic strategy game that gave rise to a generation of "Sims" games, is getting a 21st century makeover. With the real cities of the world increasingly on the front lines of climate change, SimCity will include a climate change component...

China is pushing back forcefully against the European Union's new program to charge airlines fees for their greenhouse gas emissions, holding up billions of dollars worth of orders for Airbus jets in protest. Airbus spokesman Schaffrath told th...

The stats are in on the winter that wasn’t, and the December through February period stacks up as the fourth-warmest winter on record for the Lower 48 states, according to newly released numbers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...

Sebastian Copeland and Eric McNair-Landry at the South Pole. Credit: Sebastian Copeland.  On Nov. 5, 2011, a photographer, environmentalist and adventurer named Sebastian Cop...

Because of slash and burn practices, one green tree is left amid the burned out brown of deforested land near Mae Chaem, northern Thailand. Slash and burn practices can render soils inca...

According to the NOAA Storm Prediction Center, there is a high probability of thunderstorm activity predicted for late in the day Friday for much of the eastern U.S., though chances...

Don't Have Flash? Watch this video on your iPad or iPhone here With below average snowfall across much of the U.S. this winter, it's tough to find good skiing conditions. But who says there has to be fresh powder in the mountains ...

The astronomer Carl Sagan famously called Earth a “pale blue dot,” but it originally came from a bright blue cloud. This glowing blob of light is what astronomers call a &ldq...

Dalmatian pelicans gather in the water area of the Caspian Sea port in Makhachkala in Russia's Dagestan province. Hundreds of these pelicans have migrated to Makhachkala this winter,...

While much of the United States has been in a snow drought, there is a winter wonderland in other parts of the world. Like these snow-covered trees in the Duckyu mountains in South Korea...

Defying seasonal climate forecasts, this winter has been very good to Texas, which has been locked in the grips of one of the worst droughts in state history. But the unexpectedly generous winter storms have come too late for some, since water suppli...

As cargo ships steam across the ocean, the tiny aerosol particles in their exhaust act as seeds around which moisture in the atmosphere can condense. Occasionally this results in ship tr...

Journalists and photographers are driven past sea defenses next to the Fukushima nuclear power plant that has again gained media attention. Though the Japanese government announced last ...

GJ1214b, shown in this artist's view, is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show that it is a ...

      The NOAA Climate Prediction Center released its drought outlook for February — April 30 a...

Tinakula is a small, volcanic, South Pacific island located about 1,400 miles northeast of Brisbane, Australia. This natural-color satellite image shows a plume of volcanic gas, possibly...

Ice formations hang on trees at the Unteres Odertal national park near Schwedt, Germany. The park is a shared German-Polish nature reserve. Credit: Patrick Pleul/AFP/Getty Im...

COMMENTARY Mike Lemonick   “It’s so cold outside!” a woman in the elevator said to me the other day. But it really wasn’t. It was in the 20s, and in Pri...

A horse-drawn carriage rides through heavy snowfall in Krakow, Poland. Thanks to the weather system parked over Europe for the past several months, many other countries have experienced ...

The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), a powerful instrument designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth’s atmosphere and improve weather and climate forecas...

The cold snap in Europe that has killed more than 600 people and buried communities under record snow cover has had an entirely different impact in the Arctic, which is where you’d normally expect to find frigid weather at this time of year. In...

From above, they look like giant sandtraps on a parched golf course. But when the Darling River floods in New South Wales, Australia, it feeds a system of ephemeral freshwater lakes. The...

A male polar bear climbs precariously on the face of a cliff above the ocean in northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia, attempting to feed on seabird eggs. This bear was marooned on land and una...

With possible House and Senate votes on the Keystone XL pipeline looming, climate activists — including several prominent climate scientists — are once again rallying to oppose the oil pipeline. As The Hill newspaper reported this morning...

Rare snowstorms in Rome and Tripoli and mounting death tolls from exposure — upwards of 500 lives to date — were among the consequences of a severe cold snap in Europe in lat...

A marvelous image of London's lights at night as seen from space. And we thought Paris was the City of Light. Good luck finding Big Ben in all of that.  Credit: Paolo Nespoli/...

Heavy winds blew across the Florida Bay in early January, stirring the waters and contributing to this dazzling array of color. Clouds of milky blue and green fill the shallower waters; ...

COMMENTARY By Andrew Freedman If you are one of the millions of Americans wondering why winter is missing in action this year, look no further than a sign hanging above the entrance...