Wildfires send hot flames and smoke high into the air, including black carbon emissions associated with climate change and risk to human health. Unless the United States adapts sensible forest…

Researchers have determined that languages with a wide range of tone pitches are more prevalent in regions with high humidity levels while languages with simpler tone pitches are mainly found in…

Credit: Don Davis By Claire Belcher, University of Exeter and Rory Hadden, University of Edinburgh The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs set off an intense heat wave that briefly boiled the Earth…

The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000, which continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface…

People love that earthy smell after it rains. It turns out there is a good science reason for it, and it's been captured using high-speed imaging. Petrichor is the  phenomenon first…

Recent results of a study finds that that sensor changes have significantly biased temperature observations from the Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) station network. More than 700 SNOTEL sites…

Hydrogen fuel cells may be the best option for powering zero-emission vehicles, Toyota will make them available in the United States in 2015, but those fuel cells require an electrocatalyst -- a…

Could climate change be making flying more unsafe? KamrenB Photography, CC BY By Todd Lane, University of Melbourne On December 28, AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed into the sea between Indonesia and…

80 percent of current coal reserves, 50 percent of gas reserves and 33 percent of oil reserves should remain in the ground by 2050 to avoid the 2°C target established by the Intergovernmental Panel…

An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could initiate a chain reaction between plants and microorganisms that would unsettle one of the largest carbon reservoirs we have; soil. Citing a new…