The body temperature of cold-blooded (ectothermic) animals, including insects, is ultimately determined by ambient temperature, and that impacts the speed and efficiency of their vital biological…

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone 15S as it formed in the Mozambique Channel on Feb. 18 at 10:53 a.m. EST and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard gathered…

Policy makers are in constant discussion about a range of climate change mitigation possibilities and among the least understood are geoengineering methods. The injection of sulfate particles into…

How are accurate are the world's most advanced weather forecasting models? They perform okay, at least when it comes to predicting the very near future.  Two University of Iowa researchers,…

Don't count nature out yet. Some aspects of climate change are natural. And some mitigation will be also, according to researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Johns Hopkins University in…

When it comes to global warming, there are seven big contributors: China is obviously number one, but exempt from climate treaties, as is India and Brazil. Also leading are the United States,…

The climate is a sensitive balancing act. There are a lot of knobs turning, making the future difficult to model. But trees have done a surprisingly good job adapting quickly to keep atmospheric…

What if nearly half of the cars on the road today were replaced by the electric kind, those vehicles that environmentalists and electric vehicle marketing groups claim are "90% efficient" and worth…

How bad is pollution in China? So bad you can see it from space. Wait, can't you do that in the US? Anyone who has flown into Los Angeles in the morning surely sees pollution.  This is different…

A wildfire started by three vagrants with drugs in their possession spread quickly in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles on January 16th, 2014. The plume of ash and smoke blanketed much of the…