A weekslong “snow drought” in Northern California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened, making ...

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches - and how to avoid them - in the spotlight.

Research has pointed to the dangers of heavier and wetter snowfall, even as the number of snowy days decreases overall in California’s Sierra Nevada.

A snowstorm is coming, but its impacts to the East Coast still remain highly uncertain just a few days before the event.

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

What this means is that as the world warms, more places across the globe are prone to go up in flames at the same time because of increasingly synchronous fire weather, which is when multiple places ...

Salt Lake City is set to host the 2034 Winter Games, but recent low snowfall levels have raised concerns about the impact of ...

Behind this summer’s floods and slips is a simple signal we rarely talk about: humidity. As the climate warms, NZ will need to pay closer attention.

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

From New England's unpredictable weather patterns to wildfires and climate change's influence, we continue to respond to ...