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Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Colorado State University issued their hurricane forecast for the 2025 Atlantic season on April 3, 2025. Get all the details and more information here. The post Above-average hurricane forecast for the Atlantic in 2025 first appeared on EarthSky.

The severe weather stretched from Texas to Ohio, causing tornadoes and flooding across the central United States.

A new forecast from researchers at Colorado State University predicts the 2025 hurricane season will be busier than an average year.

Rainfall near Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to exceed 12in over the next three days

Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The potent storm system will bring the threat of "significant, life-threatening flash flooding" starting Wednesday, according to the Weather Prediction Center, a part of

Thunderstorms, large hail, destructive wind gusts and strong tornadoes threaten up to 73 million people across the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Sunday.

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 26) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth.

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes

A line of severe thunderstorms, the first extreme weather event of the year, were expected to hit the Chicago area around midnight Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

NOAA, the agency best known for collecting and analyzing data that make weather forecasts and warnings possible, leads most of the government's work on ocean and and coastal health, as well as climate change research.

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America's winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this weekend

During Valentine's Day weekend, northern parts of America, including Maine, may have a chance of seeing an aurora. But space weather scientists warn that the chances of this happening are slim.

Another major storm system threatening the West Coast with rain, mudslides and flooding is triggering new evacuation warnings in areas of California impacted by last month's wildfires. CBS News national weather correspondent Rob Marciano has more.

A winter storm is moving across the U.S., bringing heavy snow and ice, and creating severe weather in the form of damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. The post Powerful winter storm to bring heavy snow, ice, tornado risk first appeared on EarthSky.

Californians are all too familiar with flip-flopping weather extremes, and new research suggests that weather whiplash is increasing as the atmosphere warms due to human-caused climate change.

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now "impossible," according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists.Led by renowned climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal "Environment: Science and ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

Weather forecasters and public bodies issued health and power loss warnings Tuesday as a "rare winter storm" gripped part of the southern and eastern U.S.

In 2024, natural disasters related to variations in the water cycle caused more than 8,700 deaths and at least $550 billion of economic loss.