This week, the National Weather Service office in Wilmington provided a summer climate outlook for the region. It includes updates on the drought, a developing El Niño pattern, hurricane season and ...

El Niño has officially arrived, and the latest edition is shaping up to be particularly potent — potentially bringing higher ...

Monsoon season begins June 15 and the National Weather Service is preparing with Monsoon Awareness Week. Here are the risks ...

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long, narrow bands of intense water vapor transport that move large amounts of moisture from low ...

Every second breath a person takes depends on oxygen generated not by forests or grasslands, but by microscopic organisms ...

Every hour, the sun delivers more energy to Earth’s surface than all of humanity burns through in an entire year. That single ...

Mycorrhizal fungi form underground networks that sustain plant life and help regulate Earth's climate by drawing carbon into ...

The last deglaciation (between 11,000 and 20,000 years ago) was a period of dramatic natural warming on Earth. During this ...

Ten days into hurricane season the Atlantic basin remains quiet, with Saharan dust and wind shear helping limit storm ...

Every season brings a new struggle for people in Dadu District, Pakistan, an area prone to sandstorms, drought and flooding.

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Feb. 6, 2027, when the moon's cone-shaped central shadow will not quite reach Earth.

Scientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back ...