Environment

It is unclear what caused the deaths of the approximately 200 birds that washed up along Changa Beach in northern Chile’s Coquimbo province.Local authorities have sent samples of the birds to a laboratory in Santiago to determine whether they...

The waters in the Pacific are rapidly changing from their current La Niña condition to the warmer El Niño within a few short months.The La Niña is a long, cold stretch of water that forms off the coast of...

While world leaders continue to offer paltry consolations in the name of climate action, a recent study has shown that the policies currently being implemented to limit global warming are not enough. We've known this, of course, but what...

Buckle up. The world’s most influential natural weather feature is shifting gears. An El Niño is building along the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and chances are above normal it will be a strong El Niño, the National Oceanic...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued an El Niño Watch as part of its weather outlook for the year. NOAA expects the weather phenomenon to develop across North America within the next six months. This development is...

For those of you who picked Florida's Gulf Coast rather than the Atlantic for spring break or vacation, this article will be of little consolation. That is unless you prefer sitting in your room being educated about tortured by a lesson on...

The sun has woken up grumpy this week, developing unusually unstable magnetic fields at some sunspots that may result in rare and violent X-class solar flares being fired at the Earth.X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar...

A massive bout of solar wind released from the Sun has ripped a hole in Earth’s magnetic field. The hole was caused by a mysterious shock wave in the solar wind, scientists say, and it was expected to lead...

Jim Elser scanned the snowfields clinging to the lower slopes of Clements Mountain in Montana’s Glacier National Park. While nearby tourists snapped pictures of soaring rock faces and searched for wildlife, Elser, an ecologist at the University of Montana and the...

After a few months of relatively low solar activity, the Sun might be about to spit out more solar flares. Images of the Sun taken on December 4 show that it has five large sunspots and two long filaments of magnetism...