Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather ...

Over the past forty years, simultaneous fire-weather days in the two regions have increased by roughly one per year. The ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America ... indeed reached the coast of America five centuries ...

The Pineapple Express is a stream of moisture in the atmosphere that delivers humid air from the tropical Pacific to the West ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of ... European baby born in North America. Thorfinn and his band ...

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions -- known as fire weather -- that facilitate the spread of wildfires.

But Europe has something that North America doesn't, when it comes to protection against hurricanes. Location. Hurricanes usually form off the coast of West Africa, where warm water near the ...