The term medicane is short for Mediterranean hurricane, and it has been used for more than two decades to identify storms ...

California's iconic Mono Lake is struggling amid climate change and drought. To save it, Los Angeles will need to siphon off ...

Delegates at the first World Climate Conference held in 1979 adopted a declaration calling on governments to “foresee and prevent man-made changes to the climate that might be adverse to the ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

Southern California's heat wave tied or broke 30 daily heat records on Wednesday with the worst heat yet to come, according ...

A day after a tiny desert community in Southern California reached 108 degrees, forecasters warned that the record-breaking winter heat across the Southwest will continue into the weekend.

Scientists say a record-smashing March heat wave in the U.S. Southwest shows climate change is already driving more dangerous weather extremes.

At least 32 containers were lost overboard during a storm at sea as the OOCL Sunflower journeyed from Taiwan to the West Coast.

China's air pollution improvements have slowed since 2021, with PM2.5 levels declining by just 0.5 micrograms annually compared with 4.2 between 2013 and 2021.

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight from California.