Regardless, the process cannot create storms out of thin air. Ken Leppert, an associate professor of atmospheric science at ...

These are failures of technology—messages sent but not received, or messages received by the wrong people. But they are also ...

Deadly floods like Texas’ are rare in California, but climate change-fueled storms could make them more likely, climate ...

The flood disaster in Texas claimed dozens of lives. Extreme floods also bring dangers in parts of California, although ...

The state's ambitious Climate Superfund legislation would hold fossil fuel companies liable for emissions, but continues to face fierce opposition.

Whitewater rafters portaged a boat for 16 miles beside the Kern River, protesting the removal of water for a hydropower plant. The facility's license is up for renewal.

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

This winter’s atmospheric river has been catastrophic. Ten different storms have stuck the California coast in the last three weeks. More than 20 people have died, thousands have been forced to ...

Scientists have discovered signs of sewage in the water at a beach in southern California in NASA satellite images. In their study, researchers examined a large wastewater plume at the mouth of ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM ...