Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research from the University of Michigan shows that ...

Scientists are just beginning to understand how extreme weather can give pathogens an upper hand, underscoring the urgent ...

Last August, residents of New Orleans endured a spate of extreme heat alerts, warning of successive days with temperatures in ...

Mental health professionals increasingly recognize that the glorification of extreme independence creates barriers to ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role ...

Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of ...

Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of ...

NOAA's program was supposed to help cities across the country better understand and respond to the problem of extreme heat.

Home to one of the largest tributaries of the Congo River, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of ...

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examined how a lack of federal funding and climate change severely impact housing for Indigenous communities in Alaska.

JINJA, Uganda (AP) — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world's ...

Heat waves are the single highest cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., where an estimated 1,300 fatalities from heat ...