Welcome to the heat dome, folks. More than 80 million people in the eastern half of the U.S. were under at least a Level 3 of 4 “major” heat risk on Friday, according to CNN. The East Coast is poised ...

Another heat wave—this one steeped in humid air, including from a Midwestern phenomenon called corn sweat—is blanketing the eastern half of the U.S. this week in July. Tens of millions of people are ...

For more on the dangers of extreme temperatures and key tips for dealing with the heat, Stephanie Sy speaks with Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University. Now let's ...

A team of scientists have brought together methods to see beyond the limitations of conventional weather records, which typically only cover the past century. Helping communities predict extreme ...

During World War II, the U.S. got a taste of what a war in the Arctic could look like. In the Battle of Attu, the Japanese army took the Aleutian island of Attu in Alaska and the 7th Infantry Division ...

A team of entomologists went into Yellowstone National Park to understand how a tiny beetle could thrive in an incredibly ...