A blast of fall-like weather is coming for much of the United States, and unlike the last brief break from summer heat, this cooldown will have some staying power.

Factors like consistently high summer overnight temperatures, droughts and heavier-than-usual rains at the wrong time can ...

New research shows atmospheric moisture helps explain why some extreme weather events, like heat waves and floods, last longer than expected.

So-called "100-year weather events" now seem almost commonplace as floods, storms and fires continue to set new standards for ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s.

meteorological fall is defined by the calendar and climate data. It starts on Sept. 1 and ends on Nov. 30 — a neat, ...

As climate change increases heat and dryness in Southern California and the Central Valley, dust storms are becoming an ...

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

I’ve never been an air conditioning guy. Even when I was a child, I had an aversion to AC; when my parents installed window units in our Civil War–era house, I slept in the natural cool of the ...

Climate change isn't just changing the temperature patterns throughout the year — it is now also reshaping the very seasons ...