New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

In the latest attack on science by the Trump administration, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center will no ...

Water, the essence of life. Like life itself it is in a constant flux. In it's different states of aggregation it reflects ...

In Antarctica, a signal like this recently seemed to materialize out of nowhere, but it wasn’t coming from the sky above—instead, it was coming from the depths of the ocean. Two decades ago, far above ...

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

A satellite image shows snow and lake ice blanketing Chicago and Lake Michigan. NASA Earth Observatory/USGS. The image also highlights an expanse of white atop Lake Michigan—an area of ice that ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

A giant, impossible icicle. Starkly exposed mountain slopes. Billion-year-old rocks behind a lone iceberg. And the view from within a glacial tunnel. The main image shows ice that has formed ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

A massive winter storm poised to unleash a barrage of heavy snow, treacherous ice, rain, and severe thunderstorms across a 1,300-mile swath of the United States will affect an estimated 62 million ...

But when the snow goes, the scenery doesn’t. There are plenty of fantastic high-altitude adventures in the Alps that don’t rely on perfect powder. Alpine areas are promoting themselves as year ...